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Wildfires in Nye

Nye, United States, has had 12 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 72,506 hectares burned inside the county, 1.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 16° · 36 % · 37 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 16° · 43 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 54 % · 46 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 72 % · 47 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 13° · 49 % · 40 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 37 % · 16 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 16° · 42 % · 39 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

72,506
hectares burned
1.5 %
of the county
12
fires
47,527
km²

How many times has Nye burned?

Nye has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mouse Meadow Fire, July 2026, with 20,756 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 72,506 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 58,792 hectares, 1.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
72,506
cumulative ha
58,792
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 Nye

  1. 20,756 ha Mouse Meadow Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 20,804 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 6,545 ha Cat Canyon Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 6,580 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 14,572 ha Gothic Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the county · 14,597 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 2,929 ha Range 77 Fire, August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,847 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,630 ha Broom Canyon Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 3,159 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 5,797 ha Southern Bench Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 5,819 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 10,241 ha Cherrywood Fire, May 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 10,307 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,861 ha Timber Mountain Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,863 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,206 ha Area-16 Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,217 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 798 ha Area 19 Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 805 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 4,281 ha Timber Peak Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 4,307 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 891 ha Tolicha Peak Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 890 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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