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Wildfires in Rooks

Rooks, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 687 hectares burned inside the county, 0.3% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 74 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 68 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 69 % · 52 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 36 % · 61 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 59 % · 72 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 16° · 37 % · 61 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 13° · 50 % · 32 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

687
hectares burned
0.3 %
of the county
2
fires
2,325
km²

How many times has Rooks burned?

Rooks has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2021. The most recent: Four County Fire, December 2021, with 13 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
687
cumulative ha
15 Dec 2021
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 Rooks

  1. 13 ha Four County Fire, December 2021 0.0% of the county · 49,727 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 674 ha Fellhoelter Fire, November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 673 ha in total · 1 day

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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