2026 Alabama Wildfires
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All 2026 Alabama Fires · 14 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Alabama. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed the border is listed with the acres that burned in Alabama, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Alabama is listed too, at its Alabama acres, and is not added to the Alabama fire counts.
| Fire | County | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Creek Fire | Perry | Apr 5, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 1,650 | 32.7593, -87.0262 | 32.7654, -87.0424 |
| Burgess East Fire | Clay | Mar 21, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 1,020 | 33.3758, -85.9069 | 33.3641, -85.9179 |
| Liri Ne Complex Rx Fire | Cherokee | Mar 1, 2026 | — | Inactive | 500 | 34.4231, -85.5821 | 34.4147, -85.5931 |
| Hobe Northeast Rx Fire | Tallapoosa | Feb 10, 2026 | — | Inactive | 434 | 32.9846, -85.7419 | 32.9833, -85.7333 |
| Hollow Ridge Fire | Cherokee | May 17, 2026 | — | Inactive | 311 | 33.9653, -85.4742 | 33.6447, -85.6329 |
| Nps Freedom Hills West Rx Fire | Colbert | Mar 19, 2026 | — | Inactive | 134 | 34.7013, -88.0476 | 34.7136, -88.0331 |
| Duck Nest Fire | Cleburne | Mar 22, 2026 | — | Inactive | 122 | 33.5081, -85.8352 | 33.5074, -85.8312 |
| Liberty Fire | Cleburne | Mar 25, 2026 | — | Inactive | 93 | 33.8561, -85.4966 | 33.8623, -85.5085 |
| Montgomery Creek Fire | Lawrence | Apr 7, 2026 | — | Inactive | 47 | 34.3871, -87.3440 | 34.3722, -87.3637 |
| Lynx Fire | Lawrence | Oct 21, 2026 | — | Active | 43 | 34.3705, -87.4703 | 34.3680, -87.4670 |
| Bobo Fire | Cleburne | Sep 9, 2026 | — | Inactive | 26 | 33.6282, -85.6405 | 33.6300, -85.6420 |
| Morgan Lake Fire | Cleburne | Apr 13, 2026 | — | Inactive | 18 | 33.5582, -85.7272 | 33.5595, -85.7260 |
| State Line Fire | Mobile | Jan 31, 2026 | — | Inactive | 1 | 30.4721, -88.4042 | — |
| Abel Fire | Cleburne | Apr 3, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 33.5611, -85.7052 | 33.5610, -85.7045 |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 14 | Active Fires 1 | Acres Burning 43 | 2026 Season Acres 4,399 |
Land cover · Alabama 2026
Burned acres in Alabama for the 2026 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.
Forest ownership · Alabama 2026
Burned forest acres in Alabama for the 2026 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.
Burn severity · Alabama 2026
Burned acres in Alabama for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.
Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.
This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.