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Wildfires in Utah

Utah, United States: 170 fires with a page have entered 27 of its 29 counties since 2016, burning 804,369 hectares inside the region. The largest was Widemouth 2 in July 2026, with 52,331 hectares inside the region. 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
804,369ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.7%
219,696 km²
fires
170
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
27
of 29
Largest fire
52,331ha
Widemouth 2 · July 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 30 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 6° · 74 % · 15 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 45 % · 19 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 37 % · 17 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 15° · 43 % · 17 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 39 % · 14 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Box Elder 97,504 ha · 5.6 %
  2. Tooele 95,725 ha · 5.1 %
  3. Millard 95,047 ha · 5.4 %
  4. Utah 94,108 ha · 17 %
  5. Duchesne 59,673 ha · 7.1 %
  6. San Juan 58,721 ha · 2.9 %
  7. Iron 41,269 ha · 4.8 %
  8. Juab 34,727 ha · 3.9 %
  9. Beaver 33,581 ha · 5.0 %
  10. Sevier 33,469 ha · 6.7 %
  11. Wasatch 29,818 ha · 9.5 %
  12. Garfield 23,239 ha · 1.7 %

Municipalities 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
202621216,922 Widemouth 2 52,331 ha
2025965,854 Monroe Canyon 31,801 ha
2024623,000 Yellow Lake 14,406 ha
202366,027 Thompson Ridge 2,762 ha
202259,748 Halfway Hill 4,900 ha
2021822,661 Flatt 5,918 ha
202027129,015 East Fork 44,011 ha
20191832,301 Neck 7,936 ha
201827171,277 Pole Creek 41,342 ha
20172492,405 Brianhead 30,071 ha
20162136,223 Broad Mouth 8,547 ha

All fires in Utah · 172

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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