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Wildfires in Rapides

Rapides, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 3,658 hectares burned inside the county, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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. Sat 24 High 28° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 25° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 25° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 27° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 28° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 27° · 35 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 28° · 49 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 72 % · 35 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

3,658
hectares burned
1.0 %
of the county
5
fires
3,538
km²

How many times has Rapides burned?

Rapides has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Claiborne Fire, October 2023, with 661 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,658 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,000 hectares, 0.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
3,658
cumulative ha
3,000
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 Rapides

  1. 661 ha Claiborne Fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 662 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,206 ha Hwy 113 Fire, August 2023 0.3% of the county · 2,873 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,047 ha Melder 1 Fire, March 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,044 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 675 ha Surprise 1 Fire, March 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 668 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 69 ha Wild Goose Fire, February 2016 0.0% of the county · 510 ha in total · 2 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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