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Wildfires in Chaves

Chaves, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 4,234 hectares burned inside the county, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 20° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 17° · 44 % · 46 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 38 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 20° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 22° · 61 % · 17 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

4,234
hectares burned
0.3 %
of the county
5
fires
15,792
km²

How many times has Chaves burned?

Chaves has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Cato 2 Fire, August 2026, with 847 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
4,234
cumulative ha
15 Aug 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 Chaves

  1. 847 ha Cato 2 Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 841 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,158 ha Chisum Fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,152 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 706 ha Overflow Fire, April 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 706 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,518 ha Crooked Creek Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,678 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4 ha Good Fire, March 2018 0.0% of the county · 1,834 ha in total · 1 day

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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