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Wildfires in Okmulgee

Okmulgee, United States, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 5,861 hectares burned inside the county, 3.2% 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. Wed 4 Very low 21° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 22° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 20° · 45 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 22° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 23° · 46 % · 18 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 Okmulgee: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

5,861
hectares burned
3.2 %
of the county
9
fires
1,822
km²

How many times has Okmulgee burned?

Okmulgee has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: 220 Ok State Assist Fire, March 2022, with 709 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,861 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,495 hectares, 3.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
6
years with fire
5,861
cumulative ha
5,495
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 Okmulgee

  1. 709 ha 220 Ok State Assist Fire, March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the county · 715 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 53 ha Red Hill West Fire, March 2021 0.0% of the county · 408 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 274 ha Honey Creek Fire, March 2021 0.2% of the county · 511 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 470 ha Briar Creek Fire, January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the county · 473 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 67 ha Deerte Fire, March 2018 0.0% of the county · 744 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 619 ha Gun Range Fire, March 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 617 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 21 ha Jackson Ranch Fire, March 2017 0.0% of the county · 1,719 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,253 ha Nuyaka Fire, February 2016 where it started 0.7% of the county · 1,250 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,393 ha Pharoah Fire, February 2016 1.3% of the county · 5,501 ha in total · 12 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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