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Wildfires in Dickens

Dickens, United States, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 4,474 hectares burned inside the county, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Mon 2 Low 28° · 37 % · 56 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 20° · 42 % · 48 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 22° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Moderate 20° · 35 % · 53 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 20° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 19° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 21° · 43 % · 32 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

4,474
hectares burned
1.9 %
of the county
7
fires
2,354
km²

How many times has Dickens burned?

Dickens has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Rustler Fire, August 2026, with 284 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
6
years with fire
4,474
cumulative ha
22 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 Dickens

  1. 284 ha Rustler Fire, August 2026 0.1% of the county · 742 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 415 ha Getaway Pens Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 495 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 173 ha Dirt Road Fire, August 2024 0.1% of the county · 606 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 630 ha Red Mud Fire, April 2022 where it started 0.3% of the county · 830 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 703 ha Spur Ranch Headquarters Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the county · 705 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,265 ha Ron James Fire, April 2018 where it started 0.5% of the county · 1,261 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,004 ha Cronton Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,006 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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