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Wildfires in Gulf

Gulf, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 4,997 hectares burned inside the county, 3.3% 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. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 61 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 27° · 59 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 23° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 22° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 24° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 24° · 56 % · 17 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 23° · 51 % · 24 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Low 24° · 47 % · 19 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 Gulf: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

4,997
hectares burned
3.3 %
of the county
3
fires
1,519
km²

How many times has Gulf burned?

Gulf has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Bertha Swamp Rd Fire, March 2022, with 1,518 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
4,997
cumulative ha
4 Mar 2022
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 Gulf

  1. 1,518 ha Bertha Swamp Rd Fire, March 2022 1.0% of the county · 9,324 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 419 ha Wimico (19-5) Fire, July 2019 0.3% of the county · 723 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 3,060 ha Firebreak 56 (23) Fire, March 2018 where it started 2.0% of the county · 3,047 ha in total · 10 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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