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Wildfires in Hemphill

Hemphill, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 223,503 hectares burned inside the county, 94% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 1 Very low 19° · 79 % · 58 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Moderate 26° · 30 % · 65 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 18° · 44 % · 58 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 21° · 37 % · 39 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 18° · 31 % · 64 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 19° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 21° · 47 % · 52 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 15° · 18 % · 54 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

223,503
hectares burned
94 %
of the county
5
fires
2,369
km²

How many times has Hemphill burned?

Hemphill has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Smokehouse Creek Fire, February 2024, with 158,274 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 223,503 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 173,388 hectares, 73 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
223,503
cumulative ha
173,388
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 Hemphill

  1. 158,274 ha Smokehouse Creek Fire, February 2024 67% of the county · 423,805 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 784 ha Smore Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the county · 784 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 15,172 ha Canadian River Bottom Fire, March 2022 where it started 6.4% of the county · 15,232 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 3,789 ha Washita River Fire, March 2022 1.6% of the county · 14,325 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 45,485 ha Perryton Fire, March 2017 where it started 19% of the county · 117,393 ha in total · 3 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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