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Wildfires in Petroleum

Petroleum, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 11,483 hectares burned inside the county, 2.7% 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
  1. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 15° · 27 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Low 16° · 35 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 21° · 27 % · 41 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 13° · 42 % · 52 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Moderate 17° · 38 % · 42 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Low 20° · 47 % · 38 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 Petroleum: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

11,483
hectares burned
2.7 %
of the county
5
fires
4,331
km²

How many times has Petroleum burned?

Petroleum has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2018 and 2019. The most recent: Lark Fire, August 2019, with 723 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
11,483
cumulative ha
12 Aug 2019
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 Petroleum

  1. 723 ha Lark Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 723 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 436 ha Bunting Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 437 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 3,937 ha Ridgetop Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.9% of the county · 4,179 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 685 ha Payola Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 684 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 5,703 ha Bridge Coulee Fire, July 2017 1.3% of the county · 109,014 ha in total · 15 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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