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Wildfires in Whitman

Whitman, United States, has had 13 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 27,133 hectares burned inside the county, 4.8% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 provisional page, 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. Sat 7 Low 18° · 38 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 14° · 51 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 12° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 15° · 57 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 19° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Moderate 19° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Moderate 18° · 43 % · 19 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 Whitman: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

27,133
hectares burned
4.8 %
of the county
13
fires
5,642
km²

How many times has Whitman burned?

Whitman has burned 13 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Wells Road Fire, August 2026, with 760 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
13
fires
8
years with fire
27,133
cumulative ha
8 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 Whitman

  1. 406 ha Whitman fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 0 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 760 ha Wells Road Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 755 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 10,195 ha Lyons Ferry Fire, July 2026 where it started 1.8% of the county · 13,731 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,663 ha Central Ferry Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the county · 2,670 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,722 ha Long Hollow Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,727 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 749 ha Nisqually John Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 754 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 864 ha Winona Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 866 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 663 ha Wagner Road Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 659 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 3,310 ha Wagner Road Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the county · 3,301 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,270 ha Riparia Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the county · 2,276 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,109 ha Steptoe Canyon Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,115 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 570 ha Chief Timothy Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 571 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1 ha Palouse Falls Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 2,146 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,257 ha Snake River Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the county · 4,184 ha in total · 3 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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