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Wildfires in Major

Major, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 3,066 hectares burned inside the county, 1.2% 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. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 87 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 63 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 76 % · 64 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 21° · 42 % · 52 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 21° · 46 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 18° · 63 % · 50 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

3,066
hectares burned
1.2 %
of the county
3
fires
2,484
km²

How many times has Major burned?

Major has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Cimarron Fire, March 2022, with 875 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
3,066
cumulative ha
12 Mar 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 Major

  1. 875 ha Cimarron Fire, March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the county · 874 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 498 ha Bowers Fire, March 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 498 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,693 ha Yolo Ranch Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.7% of the county · 1,690 ha in total · 2 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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