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Wildfires in Malheur

Malheur, United States, has had 59 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 419,324 hectares burned inside the county, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 11° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 59 % · 14 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 12° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 13° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 14° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 13° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 15° · 49 % · 26 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

419,324
hectares burned
16 %
of the county
59
fires
25,727
km²

How many times has Malheur burned?

Malheur has burned 59 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mitchell Springs Fire, August 2026, with 2,142 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 14× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 11× 26
59
fires
10
years with fire
419,324
cumulative ha
25 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 Malheur

  1. 2,142 ha Mitchell Springs Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,177 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 95,152 ha Coleman Creek Fire, July 2026 where it started 3.7% of the county · 124,993 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 17,808 ha Hat Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the county · 17,807 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,463 ha Crowley Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,457 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 267,640 ha Big Grass Fire, July 2026 10% of the county · 234,319 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 3,144 ha Cow Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 3,073 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,044 ha Bald Mountain Fire, July 2026 0.1% of the county · 30,935 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 403 ha Whiskey Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 404 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,129 ha Butterfield Spring Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,113 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 2,420 ha Lytle Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,403 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 561 ha Basin Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 568 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,286 ha Dry Creek Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,297 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,970 ha Butte Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,988 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 437 ha Lost Tom Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 455 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 18,073 ha Rock Creek Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the county · 18,184 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 671 ha Mendiola Road Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 667 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,985 ha Black Hills Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,006 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 2,825 ha Jones Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,809 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 3,273 ha Jump Fire, August 2024 0.1% of the county · 10,612 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,063 ha Gilespie Spring Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,061 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 39,604 ha Hole In The Ground Fire, July 2024 where it started 1.5% of the county · 39,651 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,120 ha Grasshopper Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,110 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 639 ha Cedar Creek Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 630 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 1,171 ha Twin Springs Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,170 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 52,172 ha Durkee Fire, July 2024 where it started 2.0% of the county · 118,838 ha in total · 19 days
  26. 1,067 ha Bonita Road Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,029 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 55,372 ha Cow Valley Fire, July 2024 where it started 2.2% of the county · 54,449 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 1,175 ha River Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,165 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 7,762 ha Little Valley Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the county · 7,678 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 1,047 ha Dry Lake Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,049 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 2,266 ha Bowden Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,303 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 400 ha Corbie Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 409 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 983 ha Vines Hill Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 975 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 1,356 ha Amelia Road Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,329 ha in total · 1 day
  35. 607 ha Sheephead Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 605 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 534 ha Malheur fire, September 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 523 ha in total · 1 day
  37. 703 ha Hat Top Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 696 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 15,851 ha Willow Creek Fire, June 2022 where it started 0.6% of the county · 15,603 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 2,081 ha Leslie Gulch Fire, November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,078 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 704 ha Rose Creek Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 691 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,563 ha Baldy Fire, 17 August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,535 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 1,636 ha Wildcat Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,656 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 18,936 ha Indian Creek Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the county · 18,711 ha in total · 14 days
  44. 985 ha Drummond Basin Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,001 ha in total · 1 day
  45. 2,098 ha Big Grassy Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,127 ha in total · 1 day
  46. 1,306 ha Currey Canyon Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,299 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 879 ha Jackies Butte Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 893 ha in total · 1 day
  48. 509 ha Hard Rock Fire, September 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 507 ha in total · 1 day
  49. 633 ha Little Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 641 ha in total · 1 day
  50. 548 ha Blevins Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 556 ha in total · 1 day
  51. 538 ha Oxbow Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 537 ha in total · 1 day
  52. 776 ha Dry Creek Buttes Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 774 ha in total · 2 days
  53. 583 ha Hawk Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 588 ha in total · 1 day
  54. 6,510 ha Bowden Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 6,575 ha in total · 1 day
  55. 578 ha Diamond Butte Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 574 ha in total · 1 day
  56. 2,518 ha Horse Cross Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,523 ha in total · 2 days
  57. 14,318 ha Cherry Road Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the county · 14,243 ha in total · 3 days
  58. 4,666 ha Simmons Gulch Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 4,636 ha in total · 3 days
  59. 5,286 ha Sheep Rock Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 5,242 ha in total · 3 days
  60. 8,993 ha Owyhee Canyon Fire, June 2016 where it started 0.4% of the county · 9,051 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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