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Wildfires in Imperial

Imperial, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 577 hectares burned inside the county, 0.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

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 12 High 30° · 20 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very high 27° · 25 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very high 25° · 29 % · 40 km/h
  4. Sun 15 High 25° · 37 % · 16 km/h
  5. Mon 16 High 25° · 36 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Extreme 22° · 25 % · 43 km/h
  7. Wed 18 High 21° · 21 % · 22 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 Imperial: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

577
hectares burned
0.0 %
of the county
3
fires
11,633
km²

How many times has Imperial burned?

Imperial has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Island Fire, July 2026, with 0 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
577
cumulative ha
26 Jul 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 Imperial

  1. 0 ha Island Fire, July 2026 0.0% of the county · 1,273 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 330 ha West Main Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 419 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 246 ha Clip Fire, October 2021 0.0% of the county · 526 ha in total · 6 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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