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Wildfires in Quay

Quay, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 7,940 hectares burned inside the county, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 2 pages 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 7 Low 16° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 39 % · 16 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 20° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 20° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Low 18° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Low 20° · 33 % · 20 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Low 20° · 43 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Low 19° · 53 % · 26 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 Quay: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

7,940
hectares burned
1.1 %
of the county
5
fires
7,475
km²

How many times has Quay burned?

Quay has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2026. The most recent: Mimms Fire, May 2026, with 2,651 hectares inside the municipality.

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5
fires
3
years with fire
7,940
cumulative ha
14 May 2026
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 Quay

  1. 14,894 ha Line Fire, May 2026 2.0% of the county · 6,152 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,651 ha Mimms Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 2,870 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,241 ha Sparks Fire, April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,428 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 141 ha Thomas Fire, April 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 502 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 26 ha Horn Fire, April 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,082 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 2,373 ha Griffith Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,864 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 533 ha Jester Fire, February 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 541 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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