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Wildfires in Larimer

Larimer, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 89,385 hectares burned inside the county, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Moderate 7° · 47 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 10° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 34 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 11° · 35 % · 71 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 14° · 23 % · 70 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 15° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 17° · 26 % · 34 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

89,385
hectares burned
13 %
of the county
3
fires
6,832
km²

How many times has Larimer burned?

Larimer has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Alexander Mountain Fire, July 2024, with 3,921 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
89,385
cumulative ha
29 Jul 2024
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 Larimer

  1. 3,921 ha Alexander Mountain Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the county · 3,922 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 84,566 ha Cameron Peak Fire, August 2020 where it started 12% of the county · 84,475 ha in total · 73 days
  3. 897 ha Cattle Drive Fire, March 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 889 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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