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Wildfires in Mohave

Mohave, United States, has had 19 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 38,006 hectares burned inside the county, 1.1% 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 14° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 49 % · 29 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 16° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 18° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 20° · 43 % · 21 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

38,006
hectares burned
1.1 %
of the county
19
fires
35,004
km²

How many times has Mohave burned?

Mohave has burned 19 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Havasu Fire, January 2026, with 1,627 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 7× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
19
fires
10
years with fire
38,006
cumulative ha
19 Jan 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 Mohave

  1. 1,627 ha Havasu Fire, January 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,641 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 649 ha Quail Springs Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 621 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 4,932 ha Pilot Fire, July 2023 0.1% of the county · 12,106 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 566 ha Pine Peak Fire, July 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 574 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 970 ha Lime Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 955 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 597 ha Elements Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 601 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 3,809 ha Snap Point Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 3,777 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 307 ha Planet Ranch Fire, June 2021 0.0% of the county · 507 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 465 ha Mohave fire, June 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 467 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 689 ha Andrus Canyon Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 685 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 598 ha Flag Fire, April 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 596 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 2 ha Virgin Mountain Fire, September 2020 0.0% of the county · 643 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,582 ha Black Canyon Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,577 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,217 ha Ridge Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,230 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 15,834 ha Basin Fire, May 2020 where it started 0.4% of the county · 15,633 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 1,192 ha Trumbull Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,183 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 706 ha Mokaac Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 691 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 778 ha Tweeds North Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 768 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 488 ha Topock Fire, April 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 577 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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