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Wildfires in Yellowstone

Yellowstone, United States, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 15,371 hectares burned inside the county, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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 7 Moderate 20° · 29 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 20° · 32 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 15° · 44 % · 16 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Moderate 19° · 27 % · 42 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 19° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Moderate 19° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Moderate 19° · 35 % · 30 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 Yellowstone: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

15,371
hectares burned
2.2 %
of the county
9
fires
6,856
km²

How many times has Yellowstone burned?

Yellowstone has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Pryor Creek Rd Fire, August 2023, with 1,286 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
6
years with fire
15,371
cumulative ha
29 Aug 2023
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 Yellowstone

  1. 1,286 ha Pryor Creek Rd Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,297 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,604 ha Cottonwood Fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,611 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 9,238 ha Musselshell Trail Rd Fire, July 2021 where it started 1.4% of the county · 9,204 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 67 ha Bobcat Fire, 2 September 2020 0.0% of the county · 12,408 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 504 ha Patriot Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 503 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 990 ha Mountain View Fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 996 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 723 ha Yellowstone fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 723 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 482 ha Sage Hills Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 484 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 477 ha Fritz Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 483 ha in total · 2 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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