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Wildfires in Baker

Baker, United States, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 166,092 hectares burned inside the county, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 12° · 50 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 10° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 4° · 78 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 8° · 77 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 5° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 3° · 80 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 5° · 81 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 5° · 82 % · 21 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

166,092
hectares burned
21 %
of the county
15
fires
8,001
km²

How many times has Baker burned?

Baker has burned 15 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mccully Fire, August 2026, with 4,784 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
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  9. 5× 24
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  11. 6× 26
15
fires
6
years with fire
166,092
cumulative ha
22 Aug 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 Baker

  1. 4,784 ha Mccully Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the county · 5,505 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 31,851 ha Fox Fire, July 2026 where it started 4.0% of the county · 31,931 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 8,536 ha Powder River Fire, July 2026 where it started 1.1% of the county · 8,534 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 53 ha Salmon Fire, July 2026 0.0% of the county · 580 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,087 ha Anthony Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,046 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 781 ha Frontage Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 784 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 23 ha Lost Tom Fire, July 2025 0.0% of the county · 455 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 7,517 ha Town Gulch Fire, August 2024 where it started 0.9% of the county · 7,481 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 12,540 ha Thompson Fire, July 2024 where it started 1.6% of the county · 12,563 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 8,838 ha Coyote Fire, July 2024 where it started 1.1% of the county · 8,849 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 67,441 ha Durkee Fire, July 2024 8.4% of the county · 118,838 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 2,015 ha Huntington Mutual Aid Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,029 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 3,044 ha 204 Cow Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the county · 4,061 ha in total · 37 days
  14. 940 ha Morgan Creek Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 942 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 16,641 ha Rail Fire, July 2016 where it started 2.1% of the county · 17,724 ha in total · 44 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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