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Wildfires in Riley

Riley, United States, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 12,318 hectares burned inside the county, 7.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 one page 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. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 52 % · 39 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 15° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 20° · 50 % · 52 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 20° · 39 % · 41 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 52 % · 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.

The county and its fires

Since 2016

12,318
hectares burned
7.7 %
of the county
7
fires
1,609
km²

How many times has Riley burned?

Riley has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Axelton Hill Road Fire, April 2024, with 458 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,318 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,741 hectares, 7.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
6
years with fire
12,318
cumulative ha
11,741
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 Riley

  1. 504 ha 311 Konza Fire, April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the county · 585 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 458 ha Axelton Hill Road Fire, April 2024 0.3% of the county · 1,153 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 2,292 ha Axelton-Burklund Fire, April 2024 where it started 1.4% of the county · 3,575 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 3,404 ha Smith Hills Fire, April 2023 where it started 2.1% of the county · 3,420 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,037 ha Carlson Fire, April 2022 0.6% of the county · 2,466 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 3,479 ha Riley fire, November 2019 where it started 2.2% of the county · 3,492 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 1,309 ha Kilo Fire, December 2017 where it started 0.8% of the county · 1,313 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 339 ha Blue Rapids Fire, April 2016 0.2% of the county · 706 ha in total · 5 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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