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Wildfires in Bent

Bent, United States, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 5,589 hectares burned inside the county, 1.4% 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. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 41 % · 20 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 24° · 21 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 20° · 39 % · 23 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 19° · 50 % · 46 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 18° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 72 % · 33 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 11° · 39 % · 72 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

5,589
hectares burned
1.4 %
of the county
7
fires
4,003
km²

How many times has Bent burned?

Bent has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Boggsvillle Fire, February 2024, with 418 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,589 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,167 hectares, 1.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
6
years with fire
5,589
cumulative ha
4,167
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 Bent

  1. 418 ha Boggsvillle Fire, February 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 422 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,965 ha Gageby Creek Fire, April 2023 where it started 0.5% of the county · 1,968 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 271 ha Bents Fort Fire, April 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 690 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,074 ha Fort Lyons Fire, April 2022 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,070 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 623 ha Ft. Lyons Fire, January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 625 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 562 ha Bent Fort Fire, April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 582 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 677 ha Black Bridge Fire, April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 684 ha in total · 2 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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