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Wildfires in Plumas

Plumas, United States, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 416,262 hectares burned inside the county, 61% 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.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 6° · 60 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 8° · 61 % · 49 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 4° · 76 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 4° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 2° · 71 % · 81 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 2° · 70 % · 45 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 2° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 5° · 60 % · 43 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 Plumas: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

416,262
hectares burned
61 %
of the county
9
fires
6,776
km²

How many times has Plumas burned?

Plumas has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Dixie Fire, 9 July 2021, with 288,231 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
5
years with fire
416,262
cumulative ha
9 Jul 2021
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 Plumas

  1. 6,707 ha Elephant Fire, July 2026 1.0% of the county · 5,637 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 288,231 ha Dixie Fire, 9 July 2021 where it started 43% of the county · 396,479 ha in total · 118 days
  3. 28,742 ha Sugar Fire, July 2021 where it started 4.2% of the county · 43,900 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 67,406 ha North Complex, August 2020 where it started 10.0% of the county · 128,093 ha in total · 81 days
  5. 2,960 ha Sheep Fire, August 2020 0.4% of the county · 11,799 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 2,715 ha Loyalton Fire, August 2020 0.4% of the county · 18,422 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 23,807 ha Walker Fire, September 2019 where it started 3.5% of the county · 23,783 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 149 ha Camp Fire, November 2018 0.0% of the county · 62,167 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 415 ha Chilcoot Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 418 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,838 ha Minerva 5 Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,840 ha in total · 16 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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