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Wildfires in Inyo

Inyo, United States, has had 12 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 36,197 hectares burned inside the county, 1.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 18° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 26 % · 17 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 23° · 26 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 23° · 29 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 24° · 24 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 25° · 18 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Moderate 26° · 16 % · 18 km/h
  8. Sun 8 High 27° · 17 % · 17 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

36,197
hectares burned
1.4 %
of the county
12
fires
26,494
km²

How many times has Inyo burned?

Inyo has burned 12 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cinder Fire, July 2026, with 1,592 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,197 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,501 hectares, 1.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
8
years with fire
36,197
cumulative ha
25,501
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 Inyo

  1. 1,592 ha Cinder Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,593 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 4,942 ha Rock Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 4,750 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 618 ha Silver Fire, March 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 652 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 21 ha Kern fire, August 2023 0.0% of the county · 430 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,822 ha Airport Fire, February 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,812 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 16,547 ha Coles Flat Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the county · 16,637 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 3,745 ha Junction Ranch Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 3,774 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 4,230 ha Taboose Fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 4,206 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 1,216 ha Georges Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,214 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 537 ha Moffat Fire, April 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 538 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 923 ha Pleasant Fire, February 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 922 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 2 ha Chimney Fire, June 2016 0.0% of the county · 598 ha in total · 2 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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