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Wildfires in Whatcom

Whatcom, United States, has had 10 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 16,838 hectares burned inside the county, 3.0% 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. Sat 24 Very low 3° · 76 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 4° · 77 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 8° · 72 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 3° · 95 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 2° · 83 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 1° · 81 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 3° · 66 % · 23 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

16,838
hectares burned
3.0 %
of the county
10
fires
5,620
km²

How many times has Whatcom burned?

Whatcom has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Border 2 Fire, July 2026, with 3,696 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
4
years with fire
16,838
cumulative ha
17 Jul 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 Whatcom

  1. 3,696 ha Border 2 Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the county · 9,654 ha in total · 47 days
  2. 3,463 ha Luna Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the county · 3,461 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 717 ha Perry Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 717 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 3,028 ha Sourdough Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.5% of the county · 3,041 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 110 ha Mcallister Creek Fire, September 2022 0.0% of the county · 1,036 ha in total · 36 days
  6. 1,101 ha Silesia Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,107 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 984 ha Three Fools Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 992 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 1,545 ha Copper Lake Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,550 ha in total · 58 days
  9. 1,291 ha Brush Creek 2 Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,289 ha in total · 58 days
  10. 903 ha Little Chill Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 907 ha in total · 19 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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