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Wildfires in Botetourt

Botetourt, United States, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2025: 394 hectares burned inside the county, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Sun 8 Low 18° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Moderate 17° · 37 % · 42 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Moderate 19° · 30 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 19° · 40 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Low 16° · 54 % · 46 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 10° · 44 % · 68 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Low 7° · 46 % · 66 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Low 9° · 42 % · 32 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 Botetourt: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

394
hectares burned
0.3 %
of the county
1
fires
1,419
km²

How many times has Botetourt burned?

Botetourt has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Bald Mountain Fire, November 2025, with 394 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
394
cumulative ha
5 Nov 2025
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 Botetourt

  1. 394 ha Bald Mountain Fire, November 2025 0.3% of the county · 1,763 ha in total · 8 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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