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Wildfires in Glacier

Glacier, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 7,966 hectares burned inside the county, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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 13 Low 15° · 20 % · 13 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 8° · 50 % · 53 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 8° · 46 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Low 7° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 4° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 2° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 1° · 54 % · 31 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 Glacier: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

7,966
hectares burned
1.0 %
of the county
3
fires
7,862
km²

How many times has Glacier burned?

Glacier has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2018 and 2021. The most recent: Greenhouse Fire, March 2021, with 5,857 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
7,966
cumulative ha
28 Mar 2021
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 Glacier

  1. 5,857 ha Greenhouse Fire, March 2021 where it started 0.7% of the county · 5,866 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 838 ha Boundary Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,159 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 1,272 ha Wolverine Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,263 ha in total · 4 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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