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Wildfires in Madera

Madera, United States, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 94,140 hectares burned inside the county, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 28 Moderate 18° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 20° · 34 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 18° · 44 % · 15 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 22° · 35 % · 21 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

94,140
hectares burned
17 %
of the county
10
fires
5,578
km²

How many times has Madera burned?

Madera has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Red Fire, August 2022, with 319 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
6
years with fire
94,140
cumulative ha
4 Aug 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 Madera

  1. 319 ha Red Fire, August 2022 0.1% of the county · 3,443 ha in total · 45 days
  2. 953 ha Washburn Fire, July 2022 0.2% of the county · 2,019 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 3,587 ha River Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the county · 4,126 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 76,733 ha Creek Fire, September 2020 14% of the county · 154,872 ha in total · 63 days
  5. 5,782 ha Lions Fire, June 2018 where it started 1.0% of the county · 5,767 ha in total · 30 days
  6. 405 ha Mission Fire, September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 408 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 4,209 ha Railroad Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the county · 5,169 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 1,544 ha South Fork Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,262 ha in total · 39 days
  9. 606 ha Oakwood Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 611 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 3 ha Lakes Fire, June 2016 0.0% of the county · 428 ha in total · 111 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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