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Wildfires in Rockbridge

Rockbridge, United States, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 3,609 hectares burned inside the county, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Wed 11 Low 20° · 32 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 16° · 63 % · 52 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Low 12° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 8° · 41 % · 47 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 11° · 40 % · 40 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Low 11° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Low 13° · 39 % · 17 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 Rockbridge: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

3,609
hectares burned
2.3 %
of the county
4
fires
1,558
km²

How many times has Rockbridge burned?

Rockbridge has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Matts Creek Fire, November 2023, with 2,025 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
3,609
cumulative ha
13 Nov 2023
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 Rockbridge

  1. 2,025 ha Matts Creek Fire, November 2023 1.3% of the county · 4,462 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 445 ha Hogback Fire, April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 444 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 193 ha Tye River Fire, May 2018 0.1% of the county · 712 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 944 ha Goshen Pass Fire, April 2017 where it started 0.6% of the county · 934 ha in total · 7 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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