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Wildfires in Summit

Summit, United States, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 8,506 hectares burned inside the county, 1.7% 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 2° · 79 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 6° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 10° · 33 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 5° · 65 % · 40 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 2° · 33 % · 41 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 3° · 52 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 2° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low -3° · 78 % · 36 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 Summit: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

8,506
hectares burned
1.7 %
of the county
4
fires
4,879
km²

How many times has Summit burned?

Summit has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Rocky Canyon Fire, August 2026, with 3,744 hectares inside the municipality.

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4
fires
4
years with fire
8,506
cumulative ha
7 Aug 2026
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 Summit

  1. 3,744 ha Rocky Canyon Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the county · 6,663 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,294 ha Beulah Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the county · 2,314 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 659 ha Fire Canyon Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 662 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,809 ha Box Canyon Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,813 ha in total · 48 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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