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Wildfires in Yakima

Yakima, United States, has had 49 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 248,463 hectares burned inside the county, 22% 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 14 Very low 12° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 10° · 82 % · 16 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 8° · 64 % · 14 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 8° · 62 % · 12 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 4° · 85 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 4° · 87 % · 11 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 6° · 69 % · 16 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 3° · 77 % · 24 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 Yakima: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

248,463
hectares burned
22 %
of the county
49
fires
11,148
km²

How many times has Yakima burned?

Yakima has burned 49 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Colwash Fire, August 2026, with 12,748 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3. 7× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 6× 26
49
fires
10
years with fire
248,463
cumulative ha
22 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 Yakima

  1. 12,748 ha Colwash Fire, August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the county · 15,824 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,730 ha 2908 Mccullough Rd Fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,733 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,733 ha Signal Peak Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,760 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 732 ha Roza Fire, June 2026 0.1% of the county · 1,431 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 9,676 ha 4170 Tule Rd Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.9% of the county · 9,748 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,392 ha Moxee Orchard Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,395 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 6,408 ha Wildcat Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the county · 6,310 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 488 ha Boundary Rd Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 497 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 802 ha Firewater Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.1% of the county · 805 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 1,598 ha Kelly Lane Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,548 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 18,103 ha Retreat Fire, July 2024 where it started 1.6% of the county · 18,076 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 859 ha Thorp Road Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 843 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 1,273 ha 1980 Slide Ranch Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,267 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 3,467 ha Beam Road Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,447 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 408 ha Canyon Road Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 411 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,879 ha Cow Canyon Fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,463 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 467 ha Byron Hill Fire, July 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 775 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 46,620 ha Schneider Springs Fire, August 2021 where it started 4.2% of the county · 46,419 ha in total · 54 days
  19. 3,027 ha Burbank Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,218 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 20,117 ha Evans Canyon Fire, August 2020 where it started 1.8% of the county · 30,871 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 8,890 ha Taylor Pond Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the county · 9,143 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 2,957 ha North Brownstown 3 Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the county · 2,963 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 431 ha Konnowac Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 435 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,641 ha Pipeline Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,420 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 438 ha Left Hand Fire, July 2019 0.0% of the county · 1,308 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 788 ha Squaw Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,229 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 488 ha Alkali Canyon Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 842 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 737 ha Yakima Fire, June 2019 0.1% of the county · 2,038 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 4,587 ha Glade Creek Fire, September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the county · 5,181 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 1,624 ha Mile Marker 44 Fire, September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,645 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 2,202 ha Meninick Pass Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,220 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 2,304 ha Miriam Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,314 ha in total · 47 days
  33. 473 ha Hwy 24 Command Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 476 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 1,868 ha Conrad Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,865 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 664 ha Buffalo Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 755 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 13,378 ha Norse Peak Fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the county · 22,171 ha in total · 38 days
  37. 4,251 ha Glade 3 Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 4,284 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 630 ha Sheep Fire, 24 July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 634 ha in total · 1 day
  39. 9,353 ha Kittitas fire, July 2017 0.8% of the county · 11,021 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,435 ha Rattlesnake Hills Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,439 ha in total · 1 day
  41. 3,132 ha Silver Dollar Fire, July 2017 0.3% of the county · 12,462 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 1,194 ha South Wenas Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,197 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 2,618 ha Yakima fire, June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the county · 6,507 ha in total · 12 days
  44. 88 ha Rock Creek Fire, September 2016 0.0% of the county · 554 ha in total · 7 days
  45. 3,254 ha Tule 6 Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the county · 3,291 ha in total · 1 day
  46. 22 ha South Ward Gap Fire, July 2016 0.0% of the county · 1,695 ha in total · 1 day
  47. 43,335 ha Range 12 Fire, July 2016 where it started 3.9% of the county · 67,867 ha in total · 4 days
  48. 597 ha Morris Lane Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 601 ha in total · 1 day
  49. 557 ha Beam Road Fire, June 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 567 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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