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Wildfires in Jerome

Jerome, United States, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 11,157 hectares burned inside the county, 7.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Tue 27 Very low 11° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 12° · 34 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 15° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 76 % · 56 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 9° · 54 % · 55 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 47 % · 33 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

11,157
hectares burned
7.1 %
of the county
9
fires
1,565
km²

How many times has Jerome burned?

Jerome has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Eden 2 Fire, September 2022, with 5,354 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,157 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,562 hectares, 6.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
4
years with fire
11,157
cumulative ha
10,562
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 Jerome

  1. 5,354 ha Eden 2 Fire, September 2022 where it started 3.4% of the county · 5,520 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 778 ha Sheep Fire, September 2022 0.5% of the county · 2,331 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 434 ha Powerline Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the county · 445 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,294 ha Sugar Loaf Fire, June 2022 where it started 0.8% of the county · 1,295 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 337 ha County Line Fire, August 2020 0.2% of the county · 663 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 114 ha North Wendell Fire, August 2018 0.1% of the county · 922 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,123 ha Shoestring Fire, August 2017 1.4% of the county · 14,384 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 411 ha Antelope Fire, July 2017 0.3% of the county · 11,999 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 312 ha Crestview Fire, July 2017 0.2% of the county · 708 ha in total · 1 day

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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