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Wildfires in Swain

Swain, United States, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 4,060 hectares burned inside the county, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: 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. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Low 18° · 21 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Low 19° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Low 15° · 27 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 10° · 84 % · 55 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 5° · 68 % · 54 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 1° · 61 % · 48 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 Swain: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

4,060
hectares burned
2.9 %
of the county
2
fires
1,402
km²

How many times has Swain burned?

Swain has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2025. The most recent: Alarka #5 Fire, March 2025, with 631 hectares inside the municipality.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
4,060
cumulative ha
25 Mar 2025
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 Swain

  1. 631 ha Alarka #5 Fire, March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the county · 637 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,429 ha Tellico Fire, November 2016 where it started 2.4% of the county · 5,738 ha in total · 10 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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