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Wildfires in Briscoe

Briscoe, United States, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 4,892 hectares burned inside the county, 2.1% 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 17° · 66 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 69 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 63 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 17° · 47 % · 66 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 18° · 26 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 22° · 39 % · 63 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 62 % · 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

4,892
hectares burned
2.1 %
of the county
4
fires
2,339
km²

How many times has Briscoe burned?

Briscoe has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cherokee Fire, May 2026, with 1,301 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
4,892
cumulative ha
15 May 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 Briscoe

  1. 1,301 ha Cherokee Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the county · 1,304 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,099 ha Tule Fire, October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the county · 1,031 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,018 ha Folley Park Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,015 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,474 ha Glover Fire, May 2018 where it started 0.6% of the county · 1,471 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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