2026 El Dorado County, California Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
6 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 (+20%) vs same period last year
126 2026 Season Acres ▼ -1,313 (-91%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in El Dorado County

Aug 25 Started 3 acres 2 football fields Newtown Fire
Aug 11 Started 16 acres 12 football fields Dennis Fire
Aug 10 Started 45 acres 35 football fields Hawk Fire
Jul 19 Started 95 acres 73 football fields Miners Fire
Jun 30 Started 8 acres 6 football fields Happy Fire
Jun 3 Started 4 acres 3 football fields Holland Fire

Largest wildfires in El Dorado County this season

95 Acres 73 football fields Miners Fire Cool
45 Acres 35 football fields Hawk Fire Somerset
16 Acres 12 football fields Dennis Fire Pollock Pines
8 Acres 6 football fields Happy Fire Somerset
4 Acres 3 football fields Holland Fire Placerville
3 Acres 2 football fields Newtown Fire Camino

All 2026 El Dorado County Fires · 6 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in El Dorado County. 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 a county line is listed with the acres that burned in El Dorado County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into El Dorado County is listed too, at its El Dorado County acres, and is not added to the El Dorado County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so El Dorado County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

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Fire Start date Containment Status Acres Center Ignition point
Miners Fire Jul 19, 2026 100% Inactive 95 38.7838, -121.0140 —
Hawk Fire Aug 10, 2026 100% Inactive 0 of 45 39.5877, -119.9277 39.5532, -119.9693
Dennis Fire Aug 11, 2026 100% Inactive 16 38.6997, -120.3729 —
Happy Fire Jun 30, 2026 100% Inactive 8 38.6620, -120.6690 —
Holland Fire Jun 3, 2026 25% Inactive 4 38.7642, -120.7979 —
Newtown Fire Aug 25, 2026 100% Inactive 3 38.7070, -120.6850 —
Totals 2026 Season Fires 6 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 126

Land cover · El Dorado County 2026

Burned acres in El Dorado County 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.

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Acres by cover type Acres in El Dorado County % of burned % of El Dorado County
Forest 31 26.9% 61.1%
Range (shrubland) 9 7.6% 16.1%
Grassland 71 62.0% 9.1%
Other 4 3.5% 13.7%
Measured acres in El Dorado County 115 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in El Dorado County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Miners Fire 95 93 17 4 71 0 0
Dennis Fire 16 17 8 5 0 4 0
Holland Fire 4 6 6 0 0 0 0
Fires awaiting measurement
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Hawk Fire 45 15,082 Every cell outside El Dorado County
Happy Fire 8 — Awaiting a perimeter
Newtown Fire 3 — Awaiting a perimeter
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 6 171
Offered to measurement 6 171
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 3 115
Awaiting a perimeter 2 11
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside El Dorado County 1 45
Measured acres in El Dorado County 3 115
Measured acres outside El Dorado County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 115
Reported minus measured — 0
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · El Dorado County 2026

Burned forest acres in El Dorado County 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.

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Burned forest by owner Forest acres in El Dorado County % of burned forest % of El Dorado County's forestland
Public 8 26.6% 54.2%
Federal 8 26.6% 50.8%
State 0 0.0% 3.4%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 14 46.0% 45.8%
Family 14 46.0% 32.0%
Corporate 0 0.0% 13.6%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.2%
Ownership not modeled 8 27.3% —
Burned forest in El Dorado County 31 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in El Dorado County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Miners Fire 17 0 0 0 0 9 8
Dennis Fire 8 8 0 0 0 0 0
Holland Fire 6 0 0 0 0 6 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 139 31
Land cover Forest cells 139 31
Equal 139

Search Fires

🔥 Newtown Fire 2026
Started: Aug 25 3 acre 100% contained
Near Camino · El Dorado County, California
🔥 Dennis Fire 2026
Started: Aug 11 16 acre 100% contained
Near Pollock Pines · El Dorado County, California
🔥 Hawk Fire 2026
Started: Aug 10 45 acre 100% contained
Near Somerset · El Dorado County, California
🔥 Miners Fire 2026
Started: Jul 19 95 acre 100% contained
Near Cool · El Dorado County, California
🔥 Happy Fire 2026
Started: Jun 30 8 acre 100% contained
Near Somerset · El Dorado County, California
🔥 Holland Fire 2026
Started: Jun 03 4 acre 25% contained
Near Placerville · El Dorado County, California