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Wildfires in Wallowa

Wallowa, United States, has had 13 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 100,723 hectares burned inside the county, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 one page 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 11 Very low 16° · 41 % · 16 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 17° · 34 % · 14 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 14° · 34 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 9° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 11° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 4° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 3° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 6° · 76 % · 25 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 Wallowa: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

100,723
hectares burned
12 %
of the county
13
fires
8,167
km²

How many times has Wallowa burned?

Wallowa has burned 13 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Eggo Fire, August 2026, with 1,706 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
13
fires
5
years with fire
100,723
cumulative ha
1 Aug 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 Wallowa

  1. 1,706 ha Eggo Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,710 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,820 ha Burnt Creek Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,687 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,923 ha Paradise Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the county · 3,908 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 0 ha Jones Creek Fire, September 2022 0.0% of the county · 2,066 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 69,156 ha Double Creek Fire, August 2022 where it started 8.5% of the county · 69,148 ha in total · 31 days
  6. 4,886 ha Nebo Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the county · 4,927 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 8,380 ha Sturgill Fire, August 2022 where it started 1.0% of the county · 8,753 ha in total · 60 days
  8. 9,402 ha Elbow Creek Fire, July 2021 where it started 1.2% of the county · 9,345 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 27 ha Shovel Creek Fire, July 2021 0.0% of the county · 44,411 ha in total · 25 days
  10. 631 ha Dry Creek Fire, 4 June 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 624 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,023 ha Joseph Canyon Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,986 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,157 ha Granite Gulch Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,359 ha in total · 40 days
  13. 26 ha Powerline Fire, July 2017 0.0% of the county · 19,130 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 508 ha Buck Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 512 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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