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Wildfires in McKenzie

McKenzie, United States, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 11,620 hectares burned inside the county, 1.6% 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. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 78 % · 51 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 8° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 12° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 12° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 44 % · 77 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 18° · 43 % · 54 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Low 13° · 48 % · 58 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

11,620
hectares burned
1.6 %
of the county
6
fires
7,397
km²

How many times has McKenzie burned?

McKenzie has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: McKenzie fire, March 2025, with 393 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
11,620
cumulative ha
27 Mar 2025
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 McKenzie

  1. 393 ha McKenzie fire, March 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 911 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,240 ha Charlson Fire, October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,233 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 3,378 ha Bear Den Fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the county · 3,614 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 3,855 ha Elkhorn Fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the county · 4,496 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,785 ha Horse Pasture Fire, April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,793 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 968 ha Magpie Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,046 ha in total · 3 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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