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Wildfires in Highlands

Highlands, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 5,914 hectares burned inside the county, 2.1% 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. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 67 % · 13 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 63 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 26° · 60 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 66 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 26° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 71 % · 18 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 Highlands: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

5,914
hectares burned
2.1 %
of the county
5
fires
2,874
km²

How many times has Highlands burned?

Highlands has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2018 and 2024. The most recent: Highlands fire, July 2024, with 511 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
5,914
cumulative ha
26 Jul 2024
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 Highlands

  1. 511 ha Highlands fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 508 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 614 ha Highlands fire, 19 April 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 601 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,194 ha Highlands fire, 12 April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,193 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 77 ha Crane Island Fire, May 2017 0.0% of the county · 2,064 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 3,518 ha Echo Springs Fire, May 2017 where it started 1.2% of the county · 3,494 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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