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Wildfires in Shawnee

Shawnee, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,188 hectares burned inside the county, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 12 Low 10° · 56 % · 38 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 7° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Low 8° · 48 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 10° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Low 12° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Low 14° · 51 % · 45 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Low 14° · 58 % · 49 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 Shawnee: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

1,188
hectares burned
0.8 %
of the county
2
fires
1,438
km²

How many times has Shawnee burned?

Shawnee has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Crawford Fire, March 2021, with 411 hectares inside the municipality.

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  2.   17
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  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
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  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,188
cumulative ha
5 Mar 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 Shawnee

  1. 411 ha Crawford Fire, March 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 412 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 777 ha Bourbonais Creek Fire, November 2020 where it started 0.5% of the county · 1,134 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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