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Wildfires in Rich

Rich, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 4,137 hectares burned inside the county, 1.5% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 7° · 82 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 7° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 8° · 63 % · 18 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 11° · 51 % · 17 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 6° · 73 % · 19 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

4,137
hectares burned
1.5 %
of the county
2
fires
2,819
km²

How many times has Rich burned?

Rich has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2024. The most recent: Dry Fork Fire, August 2024, with 549 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
4,137
cumulative ha
6 Aug 2024
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 Rich

  1. 549 ha Dry Fork Fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 547 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,587 ha North Eden Fire, August 2018 where it started 1.3% of the county · 5,822 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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