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Wildfires in Box Elder

Box Elder, United States, has had 30 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 97,504 hectares burned inside the county, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 60 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 12° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 10° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 74 % · 28 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

97,504
hectares burned
5.6 %
of the county
30
fires
17,446
km²

How many times has Box Elder burned?

Box Elder has burned 30 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Brushy Canyon Fire, August 2026, with 3,967 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 97,504 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 85,346 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
30
fires
9
years with fire
97,504
cumulative ha
85,346
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 Box Elder

  1. 3,967 ha Brushy Canyon Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,982 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,807 ha Johnson Canyon Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,788 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,078 ha Hag Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,092 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,535 ha Hag/Gat Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,550 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,358 ha Ttu Fire, March 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,379 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,005 ha Hag Boundry Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,009 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,193 ha Dennis Hill Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,199 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 595 ha Bar H Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 591 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 2,521 ha Matlin Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,522 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 3,892 ha Shelter Pass Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,916 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,539 ha Russell Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,523 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,783 ha Curlew Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,774 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,038 ha Radio Hill Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,034 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,833 ha Hansel Point Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,819 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 5,913 ha Goring Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the county · 5,878 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 526 ha Raft River Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 526 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 27,755 ha Goose Creek Fire, July 2018 where it started 1.6% of the county · 53,236 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 1,624 ha Rough Canyon Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,612 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 831 ha Hag 1 Fire, May 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 836 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 993 ha Shaw Springs Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 993 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 1,717 ha Kelton Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,710 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 905 ha Deseret Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 906 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 5,324 ha Wildcat Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 5,301 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 4,354 ha Sally Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 4,387 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 2,093 ha Cedar Hills Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,087 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 0 ha Oneida fire, June 2017 0.0% of the county · 1,492 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 3,285 ha Stream Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,280 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 2,622 ha Long Ridge Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,630 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 8,547 ha Broad Mouth Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the county · 8,499 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 2,873 ha Peplin Fire, June 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,871 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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