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Wildfires in Okeechobee

Okeechobee, United States, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2018: 576 hectares burned inside the county, 0.2% 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 Very low 28° · 59 % · 54 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 28° · 61 % · 54 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 27° · 66 % · 62 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 72 % · 41 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 71 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 60 % · 37 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

576
hectares burned
0.2 %
of the county
1
fires
2,320
km²

How many times has Okeechobee burned?

Okeechobee has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2018. The most recent: Chip (47) Fire, February 2018, with 576 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
576
cumulative ha
4 Feb 2018
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 Okeechobee

  1. 576 ha Chip (47) Fire, February 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 575 ha in total · 11 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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