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Wildfires in Sterling

Sterling, United States, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 4,446 hectares burned inside the county, 1.9% 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 7 Very low 13° · 80 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 77 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 73 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 19° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 22° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 20° · 37 % · 20 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 21° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Low 21° · 58 % · 35 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 Sterling: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

4,446
hectares burned
1.9 %
of the county
4
fires
2,399
km²

How many times has Sterling burned?

Sterling has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Edmunson Fire, March 2022, with 997 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
4,446
cumulative ha
17 Mar 2022
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 Sterling

  1. 997 ha Edmunson Fire, March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,554 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,121 ha Sterling fire, July 2020 where it started 0.9% of the county · 2,124 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,141 ha Slade Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.5% of the county · 1,911 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 188 ha Tom Green fire, August 2019 0.1% of the county · 2,189 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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