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Wildfires in Placer

Placer, United States, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 26,786 hectares burned inside the county, 6.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 17° · 40 % · 31 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 21° · 28 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 21° · 23 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Moderate 21° · 22 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Moderate 21° · 22 % · 29 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Moderate 22° · 15 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 22° · 22 % · 30 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 Placer: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

26,786
hectares burned
6.9 %
of the county
4
fires
3,900
km²

How many times has Placer burned?

Placer has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Mosquito Fire, September 2022, with 25,844 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
26,786
cumulative ha
7 Sept 2022
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 Placer

  1. 25,844 ha Mosquito Fire, September 2022 where it started 6.6% of the county · 31,517 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 371 ha River Fire, August 2021 0.1% of the county · 1,095 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 514 ha North Fire, September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 514 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 57 ha Trailhead Fire, June 2016 0.0% of the county · 2,324 ha in total · 14 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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