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Wildfires in Pima

Pima, United States, has had 30 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 118,901 hectares burned inside the county, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 27 Moderate 28° · 20 % · 20 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 28° · 21 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 30° · 29 % · 39 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 49 % · 52 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 76 % · 41 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 21° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 50 % · 41 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

118,901
hectares burned
5.0 %
of the county
30
fires
23,916
km²

How many times has Pima burned?

Pima has burned 30 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Brown Fire, July 2024, with 563 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 118,901 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 105,419 hectares, 4.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
30
fires
8
years with fire
118,901
cumulative ha
105,419
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 Pima

  1. 563 ha Brown Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 564 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,340 ha Lalo Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,344 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 612 ha Gallineta Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 620 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,188 ha Round Hill Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,189 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 791 ha Chimney Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 785 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 570 ha Beehive Fire, July 2023 0.0% of the county · 4,484 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,285 ha Oak Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,284 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 12,693 ha Contreras Fire, June 2022 where it started 0.5% of the county · 12,659 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 971 ha Presumido Peak Fire, March 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 977 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 760 ha Sycamore Canyon Fire, May 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 758 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 554 ha Three Hills Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 555 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 5,716 ha Encinos Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 5,719 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 707 ha Espinosa Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 717 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 931 ha Navarro Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 928 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 44,766 ha Bighorn Fire, June 2020 where it started 1.9% of the county · 51,005 ha in total · 45 days
  16. 1,610 ha Cumero Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,751 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,371 ha Altar Fire, February 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,381 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 10,933 ha Burro Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the county · 10,857 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 473 ha Mink Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 475 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 129 ha Fraguita Fire, June 2017 0.0% of the county · 1,129 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 479 ha Maynard Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 482 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 152 ha Paige Creek Fire, June 2017 0.0% of the county · 420 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 219 ha Smith Fire, June 2017 0.0% of the county · 794 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 745 ha Mulberry Fire, May 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 747 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 19,163 ha Sawmill Fire, April 2017 where it started 0.8% of the county · 19,149 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 484 ha Choulic 2 Fire, October 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 489 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 708 ha Three Hills Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 711 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 6,322 ha Brown Fire, June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the county · 6,342 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 2,257 ha Cumero Fire, May 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,272 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 407 ha Amigo Wash Fire, February 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 412 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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