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Wildfires in Archuleta

Archuleta, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 5,142 hectares burned inside the county, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 30 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 78 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 65 % · 47 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 37 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 14° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 11° · 45 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 49 % · 28 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

5,142
hectares burned
1.5 %
of the county
5
fires
3,516
km²

How many times has Archuleta burned?

Archuleta has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Rio Blanco Fire, July 2026, with 558 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
5,142
cumulative ha
28 Jul 2026
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 Archuleta

  1. 558 ha Rio Blanco Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 562 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 565 ha Trail Springs Fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 564 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,059 ha Quartz Ridge Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,045 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 550 ha Dry Lake Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 557 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,409 ha Eight Four Two Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.7% of the county · 2,410 ha in total · 16 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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