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Wildfires in Colusa

Colusa, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 30,895 hectares burned inside the county, 10% 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 63 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 16° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 88 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 15° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 13° · 82 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 15° · 71 % · 59 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 15° · 61 % · 38 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Colusa: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

30,895
hectares burned
10 %
of the county
3
fires
3,012
km²

How many times has Colusa burned?

Colusa has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Hennessey Fire, August 2020, with 595 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
30,895
cumulative ha
17 Aug 2020
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 Colusa

  1. 574 ha Colusa fire, November 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 0 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 504 ha Colusa fire, November 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 0 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 595 ha Hennessey Fire, August 2020 0.2% of the county · 127,077 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 97 ha Sand Fire, June 2019 0.0% of the county · 1,000 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 30,203 ha Ranch Fire, 27 July 2018 10% of the county · 192,471 ha in total · 52 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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