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Wildfires in Merced

Merced, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 4,578 hectares burned inside the county, 0.9% 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 29 Moderate 21° · 31 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 19° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 20° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 23° · 37 % · 16 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 19° · 62 % · 27 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

4,578
hectares burned
0.9 %
of the county
5
fires
5,135
km²

How many times has Merced burned?

Merced has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Fields Fire, July 2026, with 419 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
4,578
cumulative ha
23 Jul 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 Merced

  1. 419 ha Fields Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 518 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,573 ha Scu Lightning Complex, August 2020 0.3% of the county · 164,158 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 909 ha Pass Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 910 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,344 ha Planada Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,884 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 333 ha Nees Fire, May 2018 0.1% of the county · 744 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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