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Wildfires in Weld

Weld, United States, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 3,647 hectares burned inside the county, 0.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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. Sat 24 High 15° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 17° · 41 % · 50 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 50 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 18° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 20° · 26 % · 42 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 17° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 18° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 18° · 59 % · 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.

The county and its fires

Since 2016

3,647
hectares burned
0.4 %
of the county
6
fires
10,417
km²

How many times has Weld burned?

Weld has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: County Road 89 Fire, February 2026, with 338 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
5
years with fire
3,647
cumulative ha
17 Feb 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 Weld

  1. 338 ha County Road 89 Fire, February 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 442 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 503 ha Wildhorse 5 Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 498 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 706 ha Weld fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 707 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 881 ha Sunday Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 891 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 462 ha Keota Fire, March 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 463 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 759 ha Weld fire, February 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 755 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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