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Wildfires in Gillespie

Gillespie, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 5,093 hectares burned inside the county, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 86 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 81 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 23° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 23° · 44 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Low 19° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 77 % · 51 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Gillespie: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

5,093
hectares burned
1.8 %
of the county
3
fires
2,757
km²

How many times has Gillespie burned?

Gillespie has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nebo Mountain Fire, February 2026, with 470 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
5,093
cumulative ha
24 Feb 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 Gillespie

  1. 470 ha Nebo Mountain Fire, February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 469 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 4,054 ha Crabapple Fire, March 2025 where it started 1.5% of the county · 3,926 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 568 ha Big Sky Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 566 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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