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Wildfires in Pecos

Pecos, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 5,820 hectares burned inside the county, 0.5% 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. Fri 13 Low 22° · 47 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 22° · 40 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Low 19° · 44 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 12° · 67 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Low 13° · 70 % · 57 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 20° · 58 % · 64 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 20° · 63 % · 57 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 23° · 63 % · 63 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 Pecos: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

5,820
hectares burned
0.5 %
of the county
2
fires
12,387
km²

How many times has Pecos burned?

Pecos has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Smith Canyon Fire, August 2020, with 3,491 hectares inside the municipality.

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  5. 2× 20
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2
fires
1
years with fire
5,820
cumulative ha
31 Aug 2020
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 Pecos

  1. 3,491 ha Smith Canyon Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,481 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,329 ha Longfellow Nine Mile Complex, March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,343 ha in total · 1 day

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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