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Wildfires in Musselshell

Musselshell, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 18,259 hectares burned inside the county, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: 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. Sun 25 Low 8° · 44 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 11° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 32 % · 61 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 14° · 30 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 8° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 6° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 59 % · 19 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

18,259
hectares burned
3.8 %
of the county
5
fires
4,852
km²

How many times has Musselshell burned?

Musselshell has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Rehder Creek Fire, February 2026, with 1,835 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,259 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,494 hectares, 3.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
18,259
cumulative ha
16,494
distinct ha

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 Musselshell

  1. 1,835 ha Rehder Creek Fire, February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,847 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,024 ha Peterson Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the county · 2,030 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 580 ha North Delphia Fire, January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 579 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 12,295 ha Bobcat Fire, 2 September 2020 where it started 2.5% of the county · 12,408 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,525 ha North Delphia Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,525 ha in total · 2 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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