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Potomac Heritage Trail Fires - 2024

These are the most recent Potomac Heritage Trail fires, PHT fire perimeters, hotspots and surface PHT smoke information.

The table below shows fires near the PHT. Fires on trail or within a mile of the trail will show red text. If a fire perimeter intersects the trail the table will show start/end trail mile, first encounter to last encounter, the entire segment is not necessarily burned.

View google maps of National & PHT Smoke, National & PHT Fires/Perimeters or both layers together. Fires/Perimeters are updated every 4 hours, surface smoke is updated hourly. A Fire weather map showing red flag warnings, fire weather watches, etc, is also available. A 4 hour heat map of Air Quality Index is also available.

Surface smoke data and fire weather is from NOAA, fires/perimeters are from National Interagency Fire Center and hot spots are from NASA.

Fire Year (1950 to present):

Updated: Oct 12, 2024

#UpdatedFire Name
(click for map)
Miles
from trail
Nearest
Trail Mile
Start/End
Trail Mile
Acres
1Sep 9, 2024Second Street Fire0.02181.9181.5
181.8
1
2Sep 9, 2024Spring Gap Rx0.02361.5361.6
361.7
50
3Aug 28, 2024Loudoun Heights 2 Fire1.67253.2-1
4Aug 15, 2024Deep Brawner Fire18.99220.6-2
5Aug 5, 2024Poplar Point 20.06186.3185.9
186.2
1
6Aug 5, 2024Eagles Nest Fire8.16252.6-2
7Apr 29, 2024Meadow Restoration Rx3.54204.9-1
8Apr 25, 2024Cash Lake15.21184.9-1
9Apr 3, 2024Miller Meadow Rx1.16272.4-36
10Apr 3, 2024Upper Gambrill Rx9.45236.1-34
11Mar 31, 2024National Pike5.90450.2-5
12Mar 21, 2024Carter Barron3.47192.1-1

Change Log

May 31, 2023: Adapted to new interactive map. Data changed 1950 to present.

March 1, 2023: Fixed for NIFC data source changes.

June 19, 2021: Fixed for NIFC data source changes.

April 18, 2021: Added all fires from 1801 to present.

August 30, 2020: Added 'Nearest Trail Mile'.

August 24, 2020: Added surface smoke.

August 23, 2020: Added hotspots.

August 19, 2020: Initial release.

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