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Wildfires in Gem

Gem, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 45,548 hectares burned inside the county, 32% 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. Sat 24 Very low 10° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 12° · 63 % · 14 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 10° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 9° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 9° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 7° · 77 % · 26 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

45,548
hectares burned
32 %
of the county
5
fires
1,445
km²

How many times has Gem burned?

Gem has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Ra 7 Gem Co Fire, July 2026, with 728 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,548 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 43,706 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
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  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
45,548
cumulative ha
43,706
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 Gem

  1. 728 ha Ra 7 Gem Co Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the county · 728 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 15,008 ha Lava Fire, September 2024 10% of the county · 35,107 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 27,166 ha Paddock Fire, August 2024 19% of the county · 75,556 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,557 ha Border Fire, September 2022 1.1% of the county · 3,674 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,089 ha Four Corners Fire, August 2022 0.8% of the county · 6,360 ha in total · 31 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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