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Wildfires in Beaverhead

Beaverhead, United States, has had 16 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 81,609 hectares burned inside the county, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Tue 27 Very low 9° · 35 % · 43 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 9° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 9° · 44 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 10° · 55 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 9° · 72 % · 35 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 6° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 41 % · 23 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

81,609
hectares burned
5.7 %
of the county
16
fires
14,425
km²

How many times has Beaverhead burned?

Beaverhead has burned 16 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sand Creek Fire, August 2026, with 15,526 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
8
years with fire
81,609
cumulative ha
1 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 Beaverhead

  1. 15,526 ha Sand Creek Fire, August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the county · 14,375 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 5,735 ha Bobcat Lakes Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 4,409 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 822 ha Timber Butte Fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 837 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 830 ha Sawlog Fire, May 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 822 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,402 ha Big Hollow Fire, August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,403 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,524 ha Grouse Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,491 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 3,898 ha Trail Ridge Fire, August 2022 0.3% of the county · 7,908 ha in total · 35 days
  8. 15,593 ha Alder Creek Fire, July 2021 where it started 1.1% of the county · 15,451 ha in total · 41 days
  9. 21,117 ha Trail Creek Fire, July 2021 where it started 1.5% of the county · 25,283 ha in total · 41 days
  10. 363 ha Goose Fire, July 2021 0.0% of the county · 3,162 ha in total · 27 days
  11. 2,309 ha Sourdough Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,329 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 5,989 ha Bear Creek Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the county · 6,062 ha in total · 28 days
  13. 569 ha Beaver Creek Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 576 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 3,233 ha Goldstone Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,974 ha in total · 51 days
  15. 1,134 ha Mauer Mountain Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,144 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 564 ha Meyers Fire, July 2017 0.0% of the county · 27,816 ha in total · 62 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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