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Wildfires in Refugio

Refugio, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 1,083 hectares burned inside the county, 0.5% 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. Sun 25 Moderate 29° · 46 % · 39 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 28° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 80 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 72 % · 34 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 60 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 28° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 69 % · 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

1,083
hectares burned
0.5 %
of the county
2
fires
2,084
km²

How many times has Refugio burned?

Refugio has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Greta Fire, August 2019, with 580 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,083
cumulative ha
25 Aug 2019
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 Refugio

  1. 580 ha Greta Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the county · 582 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 503 ha O'connor Oil Field Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 497 ha in total · 6 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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