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Wildfires in Carson

Carson, United States, has had 11 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 47,829 hectares burned inside the county, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 23 Moderate 25° · 45 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 22° · 49 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 59 % · 53 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 21° · 58 % · 51 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 39 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 27° · 30 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 39 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 80 % · 41 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

47,829
hectares burned
20 %
of the county
11
fires
2,397
km²

How many times has Carson burned?

Carson has burned 11 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mcbride Fire, May 2026, with 866 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,829 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,131 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
8
years with fire
47,829
cumulative ha
40,131
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 Carson

  1. 866 ha Mcbride Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 563 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 3,975 ha Smokehouse Creek Fire, February 2024 1.7% of the county · 423,805 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 28,005 ha Windy Deuce Fire, February 2024 12% of the county · 59,082 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 345 ha 100 Mile Marker Fire, April 2022 0.1% of the county · 1,496 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 7,337 ha North 207 Fire, December 2021 where it started 3.1% of the county · 9,759 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,103 ha Yandy Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.5% of the county · 1,102 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 61 ha Harbor Bay Fire, April 2018 0.0% of the county · 579 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 298 ha Dumas Complex, March 2017 0.1% of the county · 10,591 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,738 ha Carson fire, December 2016 where it started 0.7% of the county · 2,595 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,130 ha Carson 1059 Fire, December 2016 0.5% of the county · 2,144 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 2,969 ha Crutch Fire, March 2016 where it started 1.2% of the county · 18,234 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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