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Wildfires in Socorro

Socorro, United States, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 47,453 hectares burned inside the county, 2.8% 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. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Low 17° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 41 % · 16 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Low 16° · 39 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 19° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Low 17° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Low 17° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Low 15° · 45 % · 27 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 Socorro: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

47,453
hectares burned
2.8 %
of the county
9
fires
17,251
km²

How many times has Socorro burned?

Socorro has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Fisher Fire, July 2024, with 3,235 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
7
years with fire
47,453
cumulative ha
2 Jul 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 Socorro

  1. 3,235 ha Fisher Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,244 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,163 ha Hutchinson Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,160 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 15,453 ha Bear Trap Fire, May 2022 where it started 0.9% of the county · 15,468 ha in total · 35 days
  4. 6,575 ha Vics Peak Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.4% of the county · 6,596 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 1,704 ha Roberts Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,717 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 868 ha Taylor Canyon Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 878 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 3,498 ha Tiffany Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,503 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 13,987 ha North Fire, May 2016 where it started 0.8% of the county · 13,990 ha in total · 32 days
  9. 969 ha Bruton Fire, February 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 968 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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