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Wildfires in Wasco

Wasco, United States, has had 31 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 198,745 hectares burned inside the county, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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° · 73 % · 14 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 13° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 16° · 41 % · 15 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 16° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Moderate 13° · 45 % · 42 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 11° · 70 % · 15 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 17° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 18° · 34 % · 31 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 Wasco: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

198,745
hectares burned
32 %
of the county
31
fires
6,194
km²

How many times has Wasco burned?

Wasco has burned 31 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: 0567 Little Buck Fire, July 2026, with 17,061 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 198,745 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 190,913 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 5× 26
31
fires
10
years with fire
198,745
cumulative ha
190,913
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 Wasco

  1. 38,534 ha Grasshopper Fire, July 2026 where it started 6.2% of the county · 38,029 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 17,061 ha 0567 Little Buck Fire, July 2026 where it started 2.8% of the county · 17,733 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,081 ha 0449 Porcupine Ridge Fire, July 2026 0.2% of the county · 31,054 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 3,685 ha 0445 Crosswhite Fire, July 2026 0.6% of the county · 147,401 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 880 ha Wasco fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 883 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 538 ha 0380 Antelope Creek Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 545 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 593 ha 0231 Zen Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 599 ha in total · 55 days
  8. 13,515 ha Black Rock Fire, September 2025 where it started 2.2% of the county · 17,742 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 832 ha Butte Creek Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 841 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 832 ha Cram Fire, July 2025 0.1% of the county · 38,743 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,611 ha Rowena Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,497 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 14 ha Butte Creek Fire, May 2025 0.0% of the county · 719 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 5,659 ha Oak Canyon Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the county · 5,708 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 168 ha Microwave Tower Fire, July 2024 0.0% of the county · 507 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 7,543 ha Larch Creek Fire, July 2024 where it started 1.2% of the county · 7,494 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 4,424 ha Miller Road Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.7% of the county · 4,434 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 520 ha Deep Creek 0685 Rn Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the county · 524 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 2,009 ha Rattlesnake Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,221 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 2,102 ha Wrentham Market Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,114 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 2,846 ha S-503 Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.5% of the county · 2,853 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 7,139 ha White River Fire, August 2020 where it started 1.2% of the county · 7,152 ha in total · 21 days
  22. 11,292 ha Lionshead Fire, August 2020 1.8% of the county · 81,960 ha in total · 55 days
  23. 829 ha Ward Creek 0769 Rn Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 838 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 8,297 ha South Valley Road Fire, August 2018 where it started 1.3% of the county · 8,277 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 10,939 ha Long Hollow 0806 Rn Fire, July 2018 where it started 1.8% of the county · 13,620 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 18,029 ha Substation 0730 Rn Fire, July 2018 where it started 2.9% of the county · 28,007 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 40,258 ha Boxcar 0410 Rn Fire, June 2018 where it started 6.5% of the county · 40,408 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 2,147 ha North Pole 0900 Rn Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 2,163 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 5,087 ha Wasco fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the county · 5,131 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 28,178 ha Nena Springs Fire, August 2017 where it started 4.6% of the county · 28,349 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 2 ha Rhoades Canyon 0301 Rn Fire, June 2017 0.0% of the county · 6,226 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 2,682 ha Rattlesnake Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the county · 3,762 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 1,635 ha Fifteen Mile Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,637 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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