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Wildfires in Forrest

Forrest, United States, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 1,634 hectares burned inside the county, 1.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 26° · 38 % · 20 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 70 % · 19 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 71 % · 55 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

1,634
hectares burned
1.3 %
of the county
9
fires
1,220
km²

How many times has Forrest burned?

Forrest has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Range 39 Fire, August 2026, with 164 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,634 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,437 hectares, 1.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
7
years with fire
1,634
cumulative ha
1,437
distinct ha

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 Forrest

  1. 164 ha Range 39 Fire, August 2026 0.1% of the county · 1,019 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 5 ha Tiger Tank Fire, February 2026 0.0% of the county · 721 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 71 ha Dry Prong Fire, October 2025 0.1% of the county · 1,031 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 47 ha Shoot House Fire, March 2025 0.0% of the county · 2,461 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 558 ha Indian Creek Fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the county · 561 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 127 ha Range 40 Fire, January 2022 0.1% of the county · 1,586 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 600 ha Davis Fire, March 2021 where it started 0.5% of the county · 602 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 37 ha Perry fire, March 2020 0.0% of the county · 2,164 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 28 ha Perry fire, January 2018 0.0% of the county · 640 ha in total · 14 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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