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Wildfires in Nevada

Nevada, United States: 244 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 17 counties since 2016, burning 1,453,727 hectares inside the region. The largest was Martin in July 2018, with 176,228 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,453,727ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.0%
290,335 km²
fires
244
Since 2016
counties with fire
14
of 17
Largest fire
176,228ha
Martin · July 2018
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 5° · 41 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 8° · 43 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 6° · 76 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 4° · 66 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 5° · 53 % · 42 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 1° · 74 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 2° · 78 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 3° · 56 % · 14 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The counties that burned most

  1. Elko 569,888 ha · 13 %
  2. Washoe 225,959 ha · 13 %
  3. Humboldt 176,948 ha · 7.0 %
  4. Lander 90,728 ha · 6.4 %
  5. Lincoln 81,698 ha · 3.0 %
  6. Churchill 74,592 ha · 5.7 %
  7. Nye 72,506 ha · 1.5 %
  8. Pershing 66,740 ha · 4.2 %
  9. Eureka 29,026 ha · 2.7 %
  10. Douglas 27,072 ha · 14 %
  11. White Pine 26,290 ha · 1.1 %
  12. Clark 8,417 ha · 0.4 %

Counties that burn again and again

Counties with two or more fires of 400 ha or more since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202629195,775 Bug 33,063 ha
202520114,549 Cottonwood Peak 54,467 ha
2024934,953 Castle Ridge 10,334 ha
202313,429 York 3,429 ha
2022620,626 Wildcat 8,179 ha
2021726,567 Cherrywood 10,241 ha
20203096,806 Meadow Valley 23,813 ha
20192029,111 Corta 6,720 ha
201835403,826 Martin 176,228 ha
201764423,371 Roosters Comb 88,864 ha
201623104,713 Hot Pot 48,675 ha

All fires in Nevada · 245

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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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