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Wildfires in Modoc

Modoc, United States, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 85,449 hectares burned inside the county, 7.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Sat 24 Very low 13° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 15° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 7° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 13° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 11° · 46 % · 48 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 8° · 47 % · 41 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

85,449
hectares burned
7.8 %
of the county
15
fires
10,901
km²

How many times has Modoc burned?

Modoc has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Mammoth Fire, July 2025, with 1,027 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
15
fires
7
years with fire
85,449
cumulative ha
25 Jul 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 Modoc

  1. 1,027 ha Mammoth Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,025 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,402 ha Barnes Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,395 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,706 ha W-5 Cold Springs Fire, August 2020 0.2% of the county · 34,032 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 663 ha Dalton Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 663 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 15,980 ha Caldwell Fire, July 2020 1.5% of the county · 33,120 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 497 ha Allen Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 503 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,335 ha Lone Fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,332 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 5,737 ha Tucker Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.5% of the county · 5,717 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 15,929 ha Stone Fire, August 2018 where it started 1.5% of the county · 15,966 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 853 ha Eagle Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 857 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 3,088 ha Parker2 Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,097 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 12,430 ha Cove Fire, July 2017 where it started 1.1% of the county · 12,498 ha in total · 20 days
  13. 19,988 ha Steele Fire, July 2017 where it started 1.8% of the county · 19,893 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 694 ha Rimrock Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 689 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,120 ha Soup Complex, September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,133 ha in total · 11 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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