2026 Arkansas Wildfires
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All 2026 Arkansas Fires · 25 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Arkansas. 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 Arkansas, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Arkansas is listed too, at its Arkansas acres, and is not added to the Arkansas fire counts.
| Fire | County | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunker Fire | Calhoun | Sep 14, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 2,851 | 33.5818, -92.5945 | — |
| Pine Tree Rd Fire | Union | Aug 20, 2026 | 80% | Inactive | 2,328 | 33.1782, -92.5062 | — |
| Lo Gap Fire | Van Buren | Mar 23, 2026 | — | Inactive | 760 | 35.5843, -92.6214 | — |
| Ashley -100187 Fire | Ashley | Aug 21, 2026 | — | Inactive | 250 | 33.1639, -91.9165 | — |
| Nevada 400157 Fire | Nevada | Aug 11, 2026 | — | Inactive | 220 | 33.7537, -93.1383 | — |
| O'Bryant State Assist Fire | Yell | Mar 31, 2026 | — | Inactive | 160 | 34.8371, -93.3147 | 34.8679, -93.4181 |
| Whitzen Hallow Fire | Crawford | Feb 28, 2026 | — | Inactive | 150 | 35.7154, -94.4470 | 35.7210, -94.4420 |
| 700074 Fire | Van Buren | Mar 22, 2026 | — | Inactive | 100 | 35.5356, -92.7031 | — |
| Walnut Fire | Polk | Oct 16, 2026 | — | Inactive | 93 | 34.4728, -94.2666 | 34.4752, -94.2584 |
| Lucy Lane Fire | Scott | Mar 23, 2026 | — | Inactive | 47 | 34.8381, -94.3234 | 34.8355, -94.3214 |
| 700067 Fire | Conway | Mar 20, 2026 | — | Inactive | 19 | 35.4409, -92.6387 | — |
| Prairie Island Fire | Bradley | Aug 23, 2026 | — | Inactive | 18 | 33.2220, -92.1364 | 33.2212, -92.1357 |
| 700087 Fire | Van Buren | Mar 24, 2026 | — | Inactive | 16 | 35.7245, -92.5927 | — |
| 700051 Fire | Van Buren | Mar 14, 2026 | — | Inactive | 12 | 35.6276, -92.3986 | — |
| Yell 111 Fire | Yell | Sep 9, 2026 | — | Inactive | 11 | 34.9927, -93.2875 | — |
| Ar State Assist Deer Creek Fire | Franklin | Sep 21, 2026 | — | Inactive | 6 | 35.6137, -93.9941 | 35.6097, -93.9528 |
| Perry 89 Fire | Perry | Mar 25, 2026 | — | Inactive | 5 | 34.8730, -92.7810 | — |
| Lake Weddington Fire | Washington | Mar 22, 2026 | — | Inactive | 5 | 36.0970, -94.3701 | 36.0878, -94.3612 |
| 700069 Fire | Van Buren | Mar 21, 2026 | — | Inactive | 4 | 35.6251, -92.8032 | — |
| Four Tens Fire | Polk | Oct 12, 2026 | — | Inactive | 3 | 34.4896, -94.3007 | 34.4773, -94.2723 |
| Wallreak Fire | Yell | Aug 20, 2026 | — | Inactive | 3 | 34.9605, -93.6591 | 34.9641, -93.6225 |
| Cossatot Fire | Polk | Aug 10, 2026 | — | Inactive | 2 | 34.3920, -94.1692 | 34.4097, -94.1643 |
| 700091 Fire | Van Buren | Mar 26, 2026 | — | Inactive | 2 | 35.5708, -92.4277 | — |
| Bradley 132 Fire | Bradley | Jul 14, 2026 | — | Inactive | 1 | 33.6062, -92.2205 | — |
| Silver Bridge Fire | Crawford | Aug 28, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 35.7024, -94.3278 | 35.6718, -94.3432 |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 25 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2026 Season Acres 7,066 |
Land cover · Arkansas 2026
Burned acres in Arkansas 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 · Arkansas 2026
Burned forest acres in Arkansas 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 · Arkansas 2026
Burned acres in Arkansas 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.