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Wildfires in Baker

Baker, United States, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 16,824 hectares burned inside the county, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 13 Moderate 20° · 37 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 16° · 38 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 18° · 38 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 18° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 19° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 22° · 67 % · 46 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 24° · 56 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 24° · 53 % · 46 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 Baker: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

16,824
hectares burned
11 %
of the county
15
fires
1,531
km²

How many times has Baker burned?

Baker has burned 15 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Sargent Fire, April 2026, with 426 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,824 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,352 hectares, 9.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 9× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
15
fires
5
years with fire
16,824
cumulative ha
14,352
distinct ha

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 Baker

  1. 426 ha Sargent Fire, April 2026 0.3% of the county · 1,000 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,303 ha Rare Ii Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.8% of the county · 1,299 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 819 ha Baker fire, 27 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the county · 822 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,245 ha Baker fire, 25 April 2018 where it started 1.5% of the county · 2,240 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 749 ha Columbia fire, 17 April 2018 0.5% of the county · 1,586 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,074 ha Baker fire, 17 April 2018 where it started 0.7% of the county · 1,075 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 826 ha Baker fire, 13 April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the county · 824 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 683 ha Baker fire, 3 March 2018 where it started 0.4% of the county · 678 ha in total · 42 days
  9. 1,356 ha Baker fire, 3 March 2018 where it started 0.9% of the county · 1,349 ha in total · 32 days
  10. 1,015 ha Baker fire, 3 March 2018 where it started 0.7% of the county · 1,023 ha in total · 48 days
  11. 1,224 ha Baker fire, January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the county · 1,224 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 3,714 ha West Mims Fire, April 2017 2.4% of the county · 67,452 ha in total · 47 days
  13. 7 ha Columbia fire, February 2017 0.0% of the county · 2,803 ha in total · 42 days
  14. 49 ha Columbia fire, February 2016 0.0% of the county · 586 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 1,333 ha Baker fire, February 2016 where it started 0.9% of the county · 1,334 ha in total · 5 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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