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Wildfires in Tulare

Tulare, United States, has had 27 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 204,761 hectares burned inside the county, 16% 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 9° · 77 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 13° · 39 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 9° · 61 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 4° · 78 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 10° · 29 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 7° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 7° · 57 % · 29 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 Tulare: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

204,761
hectares burned
16 %
of the county
27
fires
12,549
km²

How many times has Tulare burned?

Tulare has burned 27 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Springs Fire, May 2025, with 578 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 204,761 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 198,066 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
27
fires
9
years with fire
204,761
cumulative ha
198,066
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 Tulare

  1. 578 ha Springs Fire, May 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 735 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 991 ha Rabbit Fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,161 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 905 ha Redwood Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 903 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 926 ha Summit Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 917 ha in total · 73 days
  5. 36,664 ha Knp Complex, September 2021 where it started 2.9% of the county · 36,451 ha in total · 58 days
  6. 39,509 ha Windy Fire, September 2021 where it started 3.2% of the county · 39,579 ha in total · 28 days
  7. 3,646 ha Walkers Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,647 ha in total · 26 days
  8. 550 ha Nettle Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 555 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 454 ha Moraine Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 487 ha in total · 77 days
  10. 70,623 ha Castle Fire, August 2020 where it started 5.6% of the county · 70,556 ha in total · 80 days
  11. 3,675 ha Rattlesnake Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,678 ha in total · 84 days
  12. 457 ha Grade Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 453 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 812 ha Cow Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 807 ha in total · 49 days
  14. 533 ha Mountaineer Fire, October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 531 ha in total · 40 days
  15. 2,112 ha Alder Fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,112 ha in total · 53 days
  16. 729 ha Eden Fire, October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 730 ha in total · 49 days
  17. 7,517 ha Lion Fire, September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the county · 7,514 ha in total · 33 days
  18. 14,808 ha Pier Fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the county · 14,818 ha in total · 49 days
  19. 984 ha Indian Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 990 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 984 ha Roadrunner Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 987 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 6,503 ha Schaeffer Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the county · 6,514 ha in total · 30 days
  22. 939 ha Hidden Fire, November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 937 ha in total · 25 days
  23. 1,752 ha Meadow Fire, October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,758 ha in total · 22 days
  24. 680 ha Jacobson Fire, October 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 676 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 859 ha Slate Fire, October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 858 ha in total · 48 days
  26. 5,976 ha Cedar Fire, August 2016 0.5% of the county · 11,809 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 594 ha Chimney Fire, June 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 598 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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