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Wildfires in Fergus

Fergus, United States, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 16,487 hectares burned inside the county, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Wed 4 Very low 10° · 45 % · 20 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 12° · 35 % · 45 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 12° · 29 % · 42 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 42 % · 46 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 17° · 30 % · 66 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 10° · 49 % · 59 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 41 % · 53 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

16,487
hectares burned
1.5 %
of the county
7
fires
11,260
km²

How many times has Fergus burned?

Fergus has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Wilder Fire, July 2025, with 1,395 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
16,487
cumulative ha
3 Jul 2025
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 Fergus

  1. 1,395 ha Wilder Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,397 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 5,134 ha South Moccasin Fire, October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the county · 5,150 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 8,811 ha Taylor Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the county · 8,785 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1 ha Louse Creek Fire, September 2020 0.0% of the county · 2,116 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 427 ha Judith River Road 2 Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 423 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 257 ha Ridgetop Fire, August 2019 0.0% of the county · 4,179 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 462 ha Rose Creek Fire, September 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 458 ha in total · 2 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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