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Wildfires in Reno

Reno, United States, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 5,619 hectares burned inside the county, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 14° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 17° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 48 % · 18 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Low 19° · 42 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 19° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Low 19° · 50 % · 25 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 Reno: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

5,619
hectares burned
1.7 %
of the county
4
fires
3,300
km²

How many times has Reno burned?

Reno has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2022. The most recent: Cottonwood Complex, March 2022, with 2,269 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,619 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,164 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
5,619
cumulative ha
5,164
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 Reno

  1. 2,269 ha Cottonwood Complex, March 2022 where it started 0.7% of the county · 2,623 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 522 ha Jupiter Hills Fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 519 ha in total · 39 days
  3. 1,876 ha Highlands Fire, March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the county · 2,999 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 951 ha Burmac Fire, March 2016 0.3% of the county · 4,315 ha in total · 11 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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