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Wildfires in Chelan

Chelan, United States, has had 26 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 175,096 hectares burned inside the county, 23% 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 3° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 6° · 75 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 5° · 72 % · 42 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 2° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low -0° · 91 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 2° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 2° · 73 % · 23 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

175,096
hectares burned
23 %
of the county
26
fires
7,749
km²

How many times has Chelan burned?

Chelan has burned 26 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sisi Fire, August 2026, with 1,773 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
26
fires
9
years with fire
175,096
cumulative ha
14 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 Chelan

  1. 1,773 ha Sisi Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,897 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 78,170 ha Little Giant Fire, July 2026 where it started 10% of the county · 69,975 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 382 ha Chestnut Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 441 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 17,827 ha Lower Sugarloaf Fire, September 2025 where it started 2.3% of the county · 17,393 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 17,524 ha Labor Mountain Fire, August 2025 where it started 2.3% of the county · 17,389 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 1,040 ha Apple Acres Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,380 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,400 ha Pomas Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,430 ha in total · 35 days
  8. 476 ha Dome Peak Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 756 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 3,068 ha Airplane Lake Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the county · 3,064 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 2,211 ha Minnow Ridge Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,211 ha in total · 45 days
  11. 1,609 ha Irving Peak Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,613 ha in total · 69 days
  12. 444 ha Stayman Fire, July 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 451 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 9,459 ha Twentyfive Mile Fire, August 2021 where it started 1.2% of the county · 9,464 ha in total · 43 days
  14. 544 ha Nason Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 549 ha in total · 44 days
  15. 5,037 ha Red Apple Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the county · 5,080 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,247 ha Apple Acres Fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,250 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 779 ha Chikamin Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 787 ha in total · 49 days
  18. 1,090 ha Colockum Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,104 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 113 ha Crescent Mountain Fire, July 2018 0.0% of the county · 21,555 ha in total · 62 days
  20. 17,215 ha Cougar Creek Fire, July 2018 where it started 2.2% of the county · 17,272 ha in total · 43 days
  21. 1,344 ha Rocky Reach Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,354 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 474 ha Monitor Fire, November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 484 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 3,596 ha Uno Peak Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the county · 3,596 ha in total · 19 days
  24. 2,071 ha Jack Creek Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,097 ha in total · 37 days
  25. 3,506 ha Spartan Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 3,551 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 1,696 ha Buck Creek Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,700 ha in total · 56 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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