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Wildfires in Umatilla

Umatilla, United States, has had 18 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 72,609 hectares burned inside the county, 8.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 10° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 12° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 20° · 37 % · 49 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 12° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 43 % · 43 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 21° · 30 % · 57 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 Umatilla: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

72,609
hectares burned
8.7 %
of the county
18
fires
8,379
km²

How many times has Umatilla burned?

Umatilla has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Hatch Grade Fire, September 2026, with 1,354 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 72,609 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 62,776 hectares, 7.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 6× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
72,609
cumulative ha
62,776
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 Umatilla

  1. 1,354 ha Hatch Grade Fire, September 2026 0.2% of the county · 3,853 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 26,934 ha Hagen Fire, July 2026 where it started 3.2% of the county · 24,839 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,906 ha Paradise Fire, July 2026 0.5% of the county · 3,908 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 3,301 ha Lower Dry Creek Mutual Aid Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 2,510 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,981 ha North Cayuse Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,978 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 410 ha Reith Road Osfm Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 410 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 582 ha Old Emigrant Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 577 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,735 ha Twin Sisters Fire, June 2026 0.2% of the county · 3,284 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 3,576 ha Juniper Canyon Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the county · 3,550 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,414 ha Mutal Aid 231 Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,405 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,009 ha Cold Springs Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,007 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 8,399 ha Battle Mountain Complex, July 2024 1.0% of the county · 73,049 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 1,830 ha Nf Owens Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,848 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 7,364 ha Jack Canyon Mutual Aid Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.9% of the county · 7,398 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 6,489 ha Hat Rock Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.8% of the county · 6,984 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,252 ha East Fork Butter Creek Fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the county · 4,653 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 556 ha Umatilla fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 548 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,411 ha Eli Creek Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,416 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 429 ha Little Rail Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 428 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 4,885 ha Lake Wallula Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.6% of the county · 4,844 ha in total · 7 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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