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Wildfires in Catron

Catron, United States, has had 41 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 208,927 hectares burned inside the county, 12% 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. Thu 29 Low 17° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 41 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 50 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 61 % · 64 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 46 % · 65 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 24 % · 64 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 43 % · 48 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

208,927
hectares burned
12 %
of the county
41
fires
18,001
km²

How many times has Catron burned?

Catron has burned 41 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sacaton Fire, June 2026, with 3,950 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 208,927 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 192,963 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 8× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
41
fires
10
years with fire
208,927
cumulative ha
192,963
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 Catron

  1. 3,950 ha Sacaton Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,991 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,173 ha Bear Fire, 9 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,142 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,298 ha Hummingbird Fire, April 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,312 ha in total · 31 days
  4. 9,472 ha Turkeyfeather Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.5% of the county · 9,498 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 23,284 ha Buck Fire, June 2025 where it started 1.3% of the county · 23,312 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,505 ha Porcupine Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,517 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,306 ha Dolan Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,305 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 5,141 ha Prior Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the county · 5,165 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 4,444 ha Pasture Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 4,452 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,480 ha Davis Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,492 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,682 ha Dark Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,689 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 10,734 ha Divide Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.6% of the county · 10,787 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 26,643 ha Pass Fire, May 2023 where it started 1.5% of the county · 26,761 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 15,110 ha Black Fire, May 2022 0.8% of the county · 132,898 ha in total · 35 days
  15. 1,121 ha Collins Fire, April 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,122 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 19,450 ha Johnson Fire, May 2021 1.1% of the county · 38,793 ha in total · 41 days
  17. 5,217 ha Doagy Fire, May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 5,244 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 1,120 ha Catron fire, April 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,124 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 2,507 ha Cow Canyon Fire, August 2020 0.1% of the county · 13,571 ha in total · 67 days
  20. 9,849 ha Cub Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.6% of the county · 9,930 ha in total · 24 days
  21. 778 ha Good Fire, June 2020 0.0% of the county · 7,899 ha in total · 33 days
  22. 168 ha Woodrow Fire, July 2019 0.0% of the county · 435 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 7 ha Blue River Fire, June 2019 0.0% of the county · 1,072 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 503 ha Elk Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 511 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 1,329 ha Spring Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,331 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 952 ha Coyote Fire, April 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 961 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 2,037 ha Owl Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,040 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 20,617 ha Buzzard Fire, May 2018 where it started 1.2% of the county · 20,650 ha in total · 34 days
  29. 596 ha Gravel Pit Fire, April 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 589 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 498 ha Seven Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 500 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 1,208 ha Gravel Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,218 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 3,763 ha Straw Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,799 ha in total · 16 days
  33. 1,503 ha Teacher Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,529 ha in total · 13 days
  34. 5,874 ha Corral Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 8,310 ha in total · 35 days
  35. 4,218 ha Baca Fire, May 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 4,204 ha in total · 25 days
  36. 3,913 ha Kerr Fire, May 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,915 ha in total · 25 days
  37. 583 ha Rael Fire, March 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 577 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 1,454 ha Black Range Complex, July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,466 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 2,947 ha School Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,958 ha in total · 9 days
  40. 1,118 ha Spur Fire, May 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,118 ha in total · 17 days
  41. 4,372 ha Mckenna Fire, May 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 4,400 ha in total · 34 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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