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Wildfires in Alpine

Alpine, United States, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 35,335 hectares burned inside the county, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 10° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 15° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 12° · 35 % · 67 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 14° · 16 % · 49 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 13° · 18 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 12° · 32 % · 60 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 8° · 50 % · 61 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The county and its fires

Since 2016

35,335
hectares burned
18 %
of the county
7
fires
1,926
km²

How many times has Alpine burned?

Alpine has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Caldor Fire, August 2021, with 352 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
35,335
cumulative ha
15 Aug 2021
most recent

Fires larger than 400 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in United States →

Fires that entered Alpine

  1. 352 ha Caldor Fire, August 2021 0.2% of the county · 91,758 ha in total · 52 days
  2. 22,623 ha Tamarack Fire, July 2021 where it started 12% of the county · 28,922 ha in total · 44 days
  3. 529 ha Henry Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 533 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 5,180 ha Slink Fire, August 2020 2.7% of the county · 10,713 ha in total · 34 days
  5. 5,201 ha Donnell Fire, August 2018 2.7% of the county · 14,646 ha in total · 61 days
  6. 35 ha Slinkard Fire, August 2017 0.0% of the county · 3,573 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,415 ha Mccormick Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.7% of the county · 1,779 ha in total · 18 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from MTBS (USGS and USDA Forest Service) and NIFC, in the public domain; county boundaries come from geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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