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Wildfires in Sonoma

Sonoma, United States, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 102,474 hectares burned inside the county, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 14 Very low 16° · 65 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 90 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 14° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 13° · 91 % · 45 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 14° · 78 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 16° · 69 % · 23 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 Sonoma: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

102,474
hectares burned
25 %
of the county
9
fires
4,121
km²

How many times has Sonoma burned?

Sonoma has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Glass Fire, September 2020, with 10,771 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 102,474 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 96,541 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
4
years with fire
102,474
cumulative ha
96,541
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 Sonoma

  1. 10,771 ha Glass Fire, September 2020 2.6% of the county · 27,507 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 991 ha Meyers Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 995 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 22,413 ha Wallbridge Fire, August 2020 where it started 5.4% of the county · 22,319 ha in total · 35 days
  4. 31,347 ha Kincade Fire, October 2019 where it started 7.6% of the county · 31,454 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 13,103 ha Tubbs Fire, October 2017 where it started 3.2% of the county · 14,952 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 14,856 ha Nuns Fire, October 2017 where it started 3.6% of the county · 23,002 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 7,594 ha Pocket Fire, October 2017 where it started 1.8% of the county · 7,557 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 709 ha Thirty Seven Fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 717 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 691 ha Sawmill Fire, 25 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 687 ha in total · 2 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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