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Wildfires in Pershing

Pershing, United States, has had 21 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 66,740 hectares burned inside the county, 4.2% 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 23 Very low 7° · 59 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 10° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 13° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 43 % · 59 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 12° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 13° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 12° · 37 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 9° · 53 % · 47 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

66,740
hectares burned
4.2 %
of the county
21
fires
15,722
km²

How many times has Pershing burned?

Pershing has burned 21 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Quartz Fire, May 2026, with 995 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 66,740 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 60,970 hectares, 3.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 11× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
21
fires
6
years with fire
66,740
cumulative ha
60,970
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 Pershing

  1. 995 ha Quartz Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 991 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 7,123 ha Barber Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the county · 7,116 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 717 ha Sheep Canyon Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 719 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,239 ha Summit Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,667 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 500 ha Buffalo Valley Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 507 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 526 ha Union Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 524 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,607 ha Kumiva Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,606 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 664 ha Rocky Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 664 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 10,392 ha Tohakum 2 Fire, August 2017 0.7% of the county · 37,526 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,461 ha Vista Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,475 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 914 ha Jayhawk Well Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 921 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 2,790 ha Phoenix Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,793 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,002 ha Toulon Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,007 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,599 ha Grass Valley Fire, July 2017 0.2% of the county · 4,500 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 8,873 ha Pershing fire, July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the county · 8,842 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 767 ha Limbo Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 772 ha in total · 56 days
  17. 5,925 ha Limerick Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 5,941 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 4,379 ha Trinity Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 4,384 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 6,133 ha Poker Brown Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 6,129 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 5,241 ha Rock Hill Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the county · 5,244 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 890 ha Mill Creek Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 885 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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