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Wildfires in Walla Walla

Walla Walla, United States, has had 16 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 20,712 hectares burned inside the county, 6.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Low 11° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 13° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Low 12° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 13° · 50 % · 15 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 51 % · 39 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 14° · 53 % · 47 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 16° · 54 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 57 % · 27 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

20,712
hectares burned
6.2 %
of the county
16
fires
3,365
km²

How many times has Walla Walla burned?

Walla Walla has burned 16 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Hatch Grade Fire, September 2026, with 2,495 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,712 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,537 hectares, 5.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 5× 26
16
fires
7
years with fire
20,712
cumulative ha
18,537
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 Walla Walla

  1. 196 ha Walla Walla fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 0 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 252 ha Columbia fire, October 2026 0.1% of the county · 0 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,495 ha Hatch Grade Fire, September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the county · 3,853 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 222 ha Paradise Fire, July 2026 0.1% of the county · 3,908 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 9 ha Lyons Ferry Fire, July 2026 0.0% of the county · 13,731 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 5,107 ha Lambdin Fire, June 2026 where it started 1.5% of the county · 5,126 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,560 ha Twin Sisters Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the county · 3,284 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,993 ha Wooden Road Fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the county · 1,986 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 3 ha Juniper Canyon Fire, August 2025 0.0% of the county · 3,550 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 626 ha Barstow Road Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.2% of the county · 625 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 818 ha Vansycle Canyon Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.2% of the county · 820 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 612 ha Joe Barker Road Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 611 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 587 ha Neff Road Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.2% of the county · 586 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,074 ha Oasis Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,071 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 551 ha Hat Rock Fire, June 2023 0.2% of the county · 6,984 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 864 ha Touchet North Fire, June 2022 where it started 0.3% of the county · 868 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 3,100 ha Hair Road Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.9% of the county · 3,090 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 1,092 ha Fletcher Road Fire, August 2016 0.3% of the county · 3,793 ha in total · 1 day

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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