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Wildfires in Nome

Nome, United States, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 60,695 hectares burned inside the county, 1.0% 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. Wed 11 Very low -11° · 78 % · 12 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low -6° · 78 % · 8 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low -6° · 88 % · 12 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low -14° · 79 % · 10 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low -5° · 75 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low -5° · 83 % · 42 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low -5° · 83 % · 37 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low -6° · 72 % · 42 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Nome: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

60,695
hectares burned
1.0 %
of the county
7
fires
61,670
km²

How many times has Nome burned?

Nome has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Kilusiktok Fire, June 2026, with 926 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
3
years with fire
60,695
cumulative ha
25 Jun 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 Nome

  1. 926 ha Kilusiktok Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 911 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,217 ha Salmon Creek Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,208 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 664 ha Kuzitrin River 9 Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 650 ha in total · 36 days
  4. 45,511 ha North River Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.7% of the county · 44,914 ha in total · 49 days
  5. 6,514 ha Toik Hill Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 6,874 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,229 ha River North Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,256 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 4,633 ha Nonvalnuk Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 4,913 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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