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Wildfires in Yolo

Yolo, United States, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 60,247 hectares burned inside the county, 23% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 6 Moderate 23° · 23 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 7 Moderate 22° · 31 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 8 Moderate 23° · 37 % · 16 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Moderate 24° · 37 % · 14 km/h
  5. Tue 10 Moderate 25° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Moderate 23° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Moderate 24° · 31 % · 19 km/h
  8. Fri 13 High 26° · 25 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Yolo: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

60,247
hectares burned
23 %
of the county
5
fires
2,651
km²

How many times has Yolo burned?

Yolo has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Hennessey Fire, August 2020, with 31,544 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 60,247 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,689 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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5
fires
5
years with fire
60,247
cumulative ha
35,689
distinct ha

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 Yolo

  1. 31,544 ha Hennessey Fire, August 2020 12% of the county · 127,077 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 902 ha Sand Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,000 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 24,416 ha County Fire, June 2018 where it started 9.2% of the county · 37,390 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 991 ha Winter Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,004 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,395 ha Cold Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.9% of the county · 2,544 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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