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Wildfires in Klamath

Klamath, United States, has had 23 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 182,608 hectares burned inside the county, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Wed 4 Low 7° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 9° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Moderate 14° · 28 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Moderate 16° · 32 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 9° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Moderate 11° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 14° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Moderate 13° · 27 % · 59 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 Klamath: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

182,608
hectares burned
12 %
of the county
23
fires
15,877
km²

How many times has Klamath burned?

Klamath has burned 23 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Wrights Spring Fire, August 2026, with 22,886 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
23
fires
11
years with fire
182,608
cumulative ha
5 Aug 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 Klamath

  1. 22,886 ha Wrights Spring Fire, August 2026 where it started 1.4% of the county · 22,312 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,058 ha Elk Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,067 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,492 ha Copperfield Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,497 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 619 ha Knot Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 622 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,205 ha Red Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,183 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,772 ha Little Yamsay Fire, April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,759 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,085 ha Marsh Fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,085 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 897 ha Golden Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 900 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,280 ha Dillon Creek Fire, May 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,279 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 1,076 ha Van Meter Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,085 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 943 ha Log Fire, July 2021 0.1% of the county · 6,482 ha in total · 33 days
  12. 117,755 ha Bootleg Fire, July 2021 where it started 7.4% of the county · 167,307 ha in total · 63 days
  13. 508 ha Cutoff Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 512 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 684 ha Ponina Fire, April 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 690 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 5,762 ha Two Four Two Fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the county · 5,768 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 546 ha Ward Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 551 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1 ha Watson Creek Fire, August 2018 0.0% of the county · 25,157 ha in total · 38 days
  18. 1,268 ha Timber Crater 6 Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,263 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 1,530 ha North Pelican Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,537 ha in total · 37 days
  20. 702 ha Devils Lake Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 711 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 6,508 ha Spruce Lake Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 6,499 ha in total · 50 days
  22. 11,624 ha Blanket Creek Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.7% of the county · 13,252 ha in total · 55 days
  23. 404 ha Bybee Creek Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 408 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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