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Wildfires in Ouray

Ouray, United States, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2026: 14,644 hectares burned inside the county, 10% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 4° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 3° · 44 % · 51 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 4° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 3° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 4° · 41 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 7° · 21 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 8° · 26 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 7° · 27 % · 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

14,644
hectares burned
10 %
of the county
1
fires
1,404
km²

How many times has Ouray burned?

Ouray has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Gold Mountain Fire, June 2026, with 14,644 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
14,644
cumulative ha
27 Jun 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 Ouray

  1. 14,644 ha Gold Mountain Fire, June 2026 where it started 10% of the county · 16,085 ha in total · 8 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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