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Wildfires in Flathead

Flathead, United States, has had 24 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 48,282 hectares burned inside the county, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Fri 23 Very low 10° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 8° · 47 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 8° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 9° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 5° · 86 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 7° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 5° · 80 % · 27 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

48,282
hectares burned
3.5 %
of the county
24
fires
13,607
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Flathead

  1. 887 ha Skillet Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,382 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,911 ha Silvertip Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,946 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,075 ha East Fork Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,254 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,513 ha Ridge Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,508 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 670 ha Doris Point Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 675 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,500 ha Bruce Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,513 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,763 ha Sullivan Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,779 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 4,612 ha Niarada Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the county · 8,374 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 565 ha Margaret Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 571 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 859 ha Quartz Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 855 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 850 ha Cannon Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 867 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 570 ha Weasel Fire, July 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 2,329 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,081 ha Elmo Fire, July 2022 0.1% of the county · 8,966 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,105 ha Hay Creek Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,093 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 972 ha Drumming Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,467 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 743 ha Snow Creek Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 753 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,165 ha Juliet Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,180 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 449 ha Paola Ridge Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 452 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 6,000 ha Howe Ridge Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the county · 5,970 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 349 ha Weasel Fire, September 2017 0.0% of the county · 1,596 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 2,474 ha Strawberry Fire, August 2017 0.2% of the county · 7,193 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 6,508 ha Scalp Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the county · 8,230 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 1,804 ha Adair Peak Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,789 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 6,858 ha Sprague Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the county · 6,840 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).