Wildfires in Passaic
Passaic, United States, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2024: 894 hectares burned inside the county, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).
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- Sun 1 Low 16° · 43 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 2 Low 18° · 37 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 3 Low 19° · 41 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 4 Low 20° · 58 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 20° · 77 % · 35 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 18° · 95 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 20° · 71 % · 55 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 14° · 46 % · 28 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
- 894
- hectares burned
- 1.7 %
- of the county
- 1
- fires
- 515
- km²
How many times has Passaic burned?
Passaic has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2024. The most recent: Jennings Creek Fire, November 2024, with 894 hectares inside the municipality.
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- years with fire
- 894
- cumulative ha
- 8 Nov 2024
- 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.
Fires that entered Passaic
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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