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Wildfires in Brevard

Brevard, United States, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 11,136 hectares burned inside the county, 3.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 30 Very low 28° · 70 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 73 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 25° · 86 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 90 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 82 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 76 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 67 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 63 % · 31 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

11,136
hectares burned
3.3 %
of the county
10
fires
3,368
km²

How many times has Brevard burned?

Brevard has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Indian River Trail Fire, May 2024, with 920 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,136 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,484 hectares, 3.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
5
years with fire
11,136
cumulative ha
10,484
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 Brevard

  1. 920 ha Indian River Trail Fire, May 2024 where it started 0.3% of the county · 921 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 402 ha 3.2 Scrub Jay Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 412 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 579 ha Otter Slide Fire, May 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 575 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 658 ha Peacock Fire, November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 660 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 409 ha Brevard fire, March 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 410 ha in total · 62 days
  6. 1,182 ha Rivers Edge Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,177 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,545 ha Tucker Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the county · 1,556 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,268 ha Blackpoint Fire, April 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,261 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,931 ha North Cane Fire, March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the county · 2,841 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 2,242 ha Three Forks #8 Fire, February 2017 where it started 0.7% of the county · 2,231 ha in total · 3 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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