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Wildfires in Lander

Lander, United States, has had 12 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 90,728 hectares burned inside the county, 6.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Fri 23 Very low 8° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 11° · 51 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 43 % · 14 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 15° · 39 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 15° · 33 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 14° · 36 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 46 % · 16 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

90,728
hectares burned
6.4 %
of the county
12
fires
14,283
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Lander

  1. 7,093 ha New Pass Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the county · 15,337 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 530 ha Whisky Canyon Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 509 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 23,952 ha Sheep Creek Fire, August 2018 where it started 1.7% of the county · 23,648 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 519 ha Francis Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 515 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,126 ha Crum Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,121 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 450 ha Power Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 452 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 45,246 ha Roosters Comb Fire, July 2017 where it started 3.2% of the county · 87,954 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 189 ha Transfer Fire, July 2017 0.0% of the county · 421 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 2,753 ha Izzenhood Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,728 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,805 ha Carico Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,811 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 27 ha Little Den Fire, July 2016 0.0% of the county · 1,534 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 7,037 ha Hot Pot Fire, July 2016 0.5% of the county · 48,523 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).