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Wildfires in Utah

Utah, United States, has had 17 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 94,108 hectares burned inside the county, 17% 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. Sun 1 Very low 6° · 93 % · 41 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 3° · 86 % · 34 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 4° · 88 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 8° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 7° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 8° · 52 % · 28 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.

The county and its fires

Since 2016

94,108
hectares burned
17 %
of the county
17
fires
5,556
km²

How many times has Utah burned?

Utah has burned 17 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Iron Fire, June 2026, with 9,455 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
17
fires
7
years with fire
94,108
cumulative ha
20 Jun 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 Utah

  1. 9,455 ha Iron Fire, June 2026 where it started 1.7% of the county · 16,933 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 3,281 ha Bennion Creek Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.6% of the county · 3,363 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 1,364 ha Range Fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,357 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 667 ha William Fire, September 2020 0.1% of the county · 2,268 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 170 ha Hollow Fire, July 2020 0.0% of the county · 615 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 5,256 ha Knolls Fire, June 2020 where it started 1.0% of the county · 5,233 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 797 ha Elberta Fire, June 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 797 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 3,721 ha Goose Point Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the county · 3,714 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 41,033 ha Pole Creek Fire, September 2018 where it started 7.4% of the county · 41,420 ha in total · 26 days
  10. 8,465 ha Bald Mountain Fire, August 2018 where it started 1.5% of the county · 8,501 ha in total · 36 days
  11. 666 ha Iron Hill Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 664 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 12,202 ha Coal Hollow Fire, August 2018 where it started 2.2% of the county · 12,229 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 4,409 ha Tank Hollow Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the county · 4,449 ha in total · 34 days
  14. 933 ha Lincoln Beach Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 928 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 646 ha Jocks Canyon Fire, September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 652 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 603 ha Sawmill Fire, 16 September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 604 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 440 ha Sheep Creek Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 439 ha in total · 3 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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