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Wildfires in Dawes

Dawes, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 4,252 hectares burned inside the county, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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. Sat 7 Low 18° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 20° · 28 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 17° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Moderate 19° · 28 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 17° · 33 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Low 16° · 36 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Low 21° · 37 % · 25 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 Dawes: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

4,252
hectares burned
1.2 %
of the county
3
fires
3,626
km²

How many times has Dawes burned?

Dawes has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: South Fork Fire, June 2026, with 1,613 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
4,252
cumulative ha
9 Jun 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 Dawes

  1. 1,613 ha South Fork Fire, June 2026 0.4% of the county · 16,064 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 414 ha Ash Pole Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 416 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,225 ha Post Ca Fire, September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the county · 2,249 ha in total · 6 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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