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Wildfires in Mellette

Mellette, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 7,146 hectares burned inside the county, 2.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 29 Low 18° · 34 % · 44 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 16° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 20° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 20° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 61 % · 60 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 58 % · 70 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 14° · 39 % · 60 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

7,146
hectares burned
2.1 %
of the county
2
fires
3,395
km²

How many times has Mellette burned?

Mellette has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Power Dam Road Fire, September 2024, with 6,073 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
7,146
cumulative ha
12 Sept 2024
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 Mellette

  1. 6,073 ha Power Dam Road Fire, September 2024 where it started 1.8% of the county · 6,074 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,074 ha Whipple Camp Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,074 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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