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Wildfires in Okanogan

Okanogan, United States, has had 31 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 371,889 hectares burned inside the county, 27% 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.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 6° · 88 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 6° · 83 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 5° · 79 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 4° · 76 % · 16 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 4° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 5° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 7° · 31 % · 16 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 4° · 30 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Okanogan: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

371,889
hectares burned
27 %
of the county
31
fires
13,771
km²

How many times has Okanogan burned?

Okanogan has burned 31 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sinlahekin Fire, July 2026, with 67,894 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 7× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
31
fires
11
years with fire
371,889
cumulative ha
26 Jul 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 Okanogan

  1. 67,894 ha Sinlahekin Fire, July 2026 where it started 4.9% of the county · 67,181 ha in total · 39 days
  2. 9,925 ha Ptarmigan Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the county · 10,546 ha in total · 37 days
  3. 58,520 ha Kaiser Canyon Fire, July 2026 where it started 4.2% of the county · 55,962 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,114 ha B And O Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,117 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 4,675 ha Kartar Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the county · 4,698 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 333 ha Apple Acres Fire, July 2025 0.0% of the county · 1,380 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,751 ha Swawilla I Fire, July 2024 0.3% of the county · 21,766 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,961 ha Crater Creek Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,957 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 6,723 ha Eagle Bluff Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.5% of the county · 6,676 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,115 ha Kid Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,100 ha in total · 52 days
  11. 6,852 ha Parks Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the county · 14,007 ha in total · 63 days
  12. 24,098 ha Whitmore Fire, August 2021 where it started 1.8% of the county · 24,253 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 2,850 ha Chickadee Creek Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,834 ha in total · 35 days
  14. 5,851 ha Muckamuck Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the county · 5,839 ha in total · 35 days
  15. 10,629 ha Walker Creek Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the county · 10,586 ha in total · 39 days
  16. 30,275 ha Cub Creek 2 Fire, July 2021 where it started 2.2% of the county · 30,205 ha in total · 36 days
  17. 9,226 ha Chuweah Creek Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.7% of the county · 15,130 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 23,709 ha Cedar Creek Fire, July 2021 where it started 1.7% of the county · 23,735 ha in total · 71 days
  19. 75,428 ha Cold Springs Fire, September 2020 where it started 5.5% of the county · 75,960 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 7,334 ha Palmer Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the county · 7,289 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 1,121 ha Lower Coyote Creek Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,123 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 834 ha Anglin Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 830 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 623 ha Green Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 622 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 2,140 ha Greenhouse Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,163 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 795 ha Elmer City Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 809 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 10,034 ha Mcleod Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the county · 10,011 ha in total · 36 days
  27. 21,352 ha Crescent Mountain Fire, July 2018 where it started 1.6% of the county · 21,555 ha in total · 62 days
  28. 4 ha Uno Peak Fire, August 2017 0.0% of the county · 3,596 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 37,046 ha Diamond Creek Fire, July 2017 where it started 2.7% of the county · 47,599 ha in total · 76 days
  30. 494 ha Canyon Creek Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 499 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 2,129 ha Elmer City Fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,274 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 574 ha Timm Ranch Fire, June 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 585 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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