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Wildfires in Maricopa

Maricopa, United States, has had 39 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 137,520 hectares burned inside the county, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Thu 5 Very low 23° · 35 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 23° · 40 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Low 24° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 24° · 36 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 25° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 26° · 36 % · 24 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 26° · 34 % · 22 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Maricopa: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

137,520
hectares burned
5.7 %
of the county
39
fires
23,978
km²

How many times has Maricopa burned?

Maricopa has burned 39 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Afm - Hazen Fire, May 2026, with 482 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 137,520 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 126,424 hectares, 5.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 12× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
39
fires
8
years with fire
137,520
cumulative ha
126,424
distinct ha

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 Maricopa

  1. 482 ha Afm - Hazen Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 482 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 411 ha Scd - Gate Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 405 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,938 ha Point Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,919 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 3,145 ha Siphon Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 6,071 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 747 ha Clair Fire, August 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 736 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,386 ha Bartlett Fire, August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,361 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 10,803 ha Sand Stone Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the county · 10,702 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,237 ha Black Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 3,615 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,515 ha Scd - Boulder View Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,502 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,031 ha Adams Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,023 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,652 ha Spring Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,629 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 5,798 ha Wildcat Fire, May 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 5,735 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,066 ha Flying Bucket Fire, May 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,068 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,087 ha Diamond Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,066 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 779 ha Scd - Diamond Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 776 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 473 ha Goldwater Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 471 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,085 ha Bullet Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,088 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 413 ha Ocotillo Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 412 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 83 ha Bear Fire, July 2021 0.0% of the county · 713 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 405 ha Courthouse Fire, May 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 411 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 5,446 ha Sears Fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 5,405 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 517 ha Bolt Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 512 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 1,380 ha Superstition Fire, August 2020 0.1% of the county · 3,303 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 704 ha Buren Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 704 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 1,935 ha Central Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,909 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 45,384 ha Bush Fire, June 2020 where it started 1.9% of the county · 85,949 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 771 ha Jackrabbit Fire, May 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 773 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 1,006 ha East Desert Fire, May 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,000 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 3,186 ha River Fire, September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 3,153 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,100 ha Verde Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,091 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 484 ha Jomax Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 474 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 29,078 ha Woodbury Fire, June 2019 where it started 1.2% of the county · 52,669 ha in total · 22 days
  33. 3,074 ha Mountain Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 3,040 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 727 ha White Wing Fire, May 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 727 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 433 ha Dove Fire, May 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 437 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 1,025 ha Daisy Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,017 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 488 ha Davis Fire, 13 July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 489 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 764 ha Bull Fire, July 2017 0.0% of the county · 2,199 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 483 ha Maricopa fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 487 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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