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Wildfires in Amherst

Amherst, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 4,499 hectares burned inside the county, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 14 Moderate 10° · 34 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Moderate 11° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 13° · 42 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Low 14° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Low 17° · 31 % · 16 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 20° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 19° · 26 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Moderate 20° · 32 % · 24 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Amherst: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

4,499
hectares burned
3.6 %
of the county
2
fires
1,241
km²

How many times has Amherst burned?

Amherst has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2023. The most recent: Matts Creek Fire, November 2023, with 28 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,499
cumulative ha
13 Nov 2023
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 Amherst

  1. 28 ha Matts Creek Fire, November 2023 0.0% of the county · 4,462 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 4,472 ha Mount Pleasant Fire, November 2016 where it started 3.6% of the county · 4,452 ha in total · 9 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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