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Wildfires in Chaffee

Chaffee, United States, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2019: 899 hectares burned inside the county, 0.3% 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. Sun 25 Very low 4° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 4° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 6° · 32 % · 40 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 5° · 34 % · 51 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 6° · 33 % · 42 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 7° · 35 % · 38 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 5° · 60 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 3° · 76 % · 40 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

899
hectares burned
0.3 %
of the county
1
fires
2,636
km²

How many times has Chaffee burned?

Chaffee has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Decker Fire, September 2019, with 899 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
899
cumulative ha
8 Sept 2019
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 Chaffee

  1. 899 ha Decker Fire, September 2019 0.3% of the county · 3,994 ha in total · 43 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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