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Wildfires in Ocean

Ocean, United States, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 2,092 hectares burned inside the county, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Tue 27 Low 16° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 22° · 53 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 16° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 18° · 44 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 21° · 50 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 21° · 65 % · 27 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

2,092
hectares burned
1.1 %
of the county
3
fires
1,964
km²

How many times has Ocean burned?

Ocean has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2023. The most recent: Log Swamp Fire, April 2023, with 611 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
2,092
cumulative ha
15 Apr 2023
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 Ocean

  1. 611 ha Log Swamp Fire, April 2023 where it started 0.3% of the county · 648 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,461 ha Jimmys Water Hole Fire, April 2023 where it started 0.7% of the county · 1,450 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 20 ha Spring Hill Fire, March 2019 0.0% of the county · 3,311 ha in total · 5 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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