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Wildfires in Cottle

Cottle, United States, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 8,712 hectares burned inside the county, 3.7% 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. Thu 29 Low 26° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 90 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 65 % · 37 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 27° · 44 % · 52 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 20° · 47 % · 58 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 20° · 34 % · 46 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 18° · 52 % · 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

8,712
hectares burned
3.7 %
of the county
6
fires
2,342
km²

How many times has Cottle burned?

Cottle has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Grass Burr Fire, August 2026, with 1,061 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
6
fires
5
years with fire
8,712
cumulative ha
13 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 Cottle

  1. 1,061 ha Grass Burr Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,062 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 55 ha Comanche Fire, May 2026 0.0% of the county · 790 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 696 ha West Aer Motor Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the county · 693 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,524 ha Matador Fire, February 2020 where it started 0.6% of the county · 1,522 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 3,409 ha Bird Ranch Fire, August 2019 where it started 1.5% of the county · 3,401 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,967 ha Aeromotor Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the county · 1,962 ha in total · 5 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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