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Wildfires in Kit Carson

Kit Carson, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 1,379 hectares burned inside the county, 0.2% 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. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 52 % · 57 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 73 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 19° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 19° · 65 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 19° · 57 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 16° · 76 % · 43 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

1,379
hectares burned
0.2 %
of the county
2
fires
5,614
km²

How many times has Kit Carson burned?

Kit Carson has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Kit Carson fire, April 2022, with 953 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,379
cumulative ha
22 Apr 2022
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 Kit Carson

  1. 953 ha Kit Carson fire, April 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 999 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 427 ha County Road 56 Fire, April 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 437 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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