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Wildfires in Washington

Washington, United States: 290 fires with a page have entered 30 of its 39 counties since 2016, burning 1,682,417 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pearl Hill in September 2020, with 88,289 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 5 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter; 3 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,682,417ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.6%
175,720 km²
fires
290
Since 2016
counties with fire
30
of 39
Largest fire
88,289ha
Pearl Hill · September 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 7° · 90 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 12° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 12° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 12° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 8° · 70 % · 54 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 5° · 85 % · 52 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 6° · 72 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 6° · 70 % · 32 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. Okanogan 371,889 ha · 27 %
  2. Yakima 248,463 ha · 22 %
  3. Chelan 157,571 ha · 20 %
  4. Douglas 149,287 ha · 31 %
  5. Ferry 120,018 ha · 21 %
  6. Kittitas 84,489 ha · 14 %
  7. Benton 67,693 ha · 15 %
  8. Lincoln 62,378 ha · 10 %
  9. Grant 59,321 ha · 8.2 %
  10. Klickitat 57,679 ha · 12 %
  11. Franklin 40,687 ha · 12 %
  12. Asotin 34,207 ha · 21 %

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
202647310,424 Little Giant 78,170 ha
20252377,124 Lower Sugarloaf 17,827 ha
20241789,274 Swawilla I 21,670 ha
20231658,039 Newell Road 25,009 ha
20223464,735 Vantage Highway 11,802 ha
202125275,860 Lick Creek 50,437 ha
202025308,981 Pearl Hill 88,289 ha
20191359,620 Williams Flats 17,906 ha
201836163,962 Grass Valley 30,907 ha
201728157,317 Diamond Creek 37,046 ha
201626117,080 Range 12 67,795 ha

All fires in Washington · 298

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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