2026 Inyo County, California Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

6 2026 Season Fires ▲ +4 (+200%) vs same period last year

14,859 2026 Season Acres ▲ +14,760 (+14909%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Inyo County

Sep 4 Started 6 acres 5 football fields Division Fire

Jul 25 Started 2,016 acres 1.7x the size of Lincoln Park Cinder 5-3 Fire

Jul 25 Started 2,784 acres 2.3x the size of Lincoln Park 54% the size of JFK Airport Cinder Complex

Jul 20 Started 12,008 acres 9.9x the size of Lincoln Park Slightly smaller than Manhattan Rock Fire

Jul 10 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Batchelder Fire

Jun 25 Started 30 acres 23 football fields Cinder Fire

Largest wildfires in Inyo County this season

12,008 Acres 9.9x the size of Lincoln Park Slightly smaller than Manhattan Rock Fire Independence

2,784 Acres 2.3x the size of Lincoln Park 54% the size of JFK Airport Cinder Complex Big Pine

30 Acres 23 football fields Cinder Fire Inyokern

30 Acres 23 football fields Sage Fire Lone Pine

6 Acres 5 football fields Division Fire Independence

1 Acres 1 football fields Batchelder Fire Big Pine

All 2026 Inyo County Fires · 6 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Inyo 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 Inyo County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Inyo County is listed too, at its Inyo County acres, and is not added to the Inyo County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Inyo 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
Rock Fire	Jul 20, 2026	100%	Inactive	12,008	36.9640, -118.2921	36.9168, -118.2412
Cinder Complex	Jul 25, 2026	100%	Inactive	2,784	36.9967, -118.3148	—
Cinder 5-3 Fire	Jul 25, 2026	—	Inactive	2,016	37.0283, -118.2509	37.0014, -118.2540
Cinder Fire	Jun 25, 2026	100%	Inactive	30	35.9780, -117.9270	—
Sage Fire	Jun 2, 2026	100%	Inactive	30	36.1796, -117.9804	36.2101, -117.9796
Division Fire	Sep 4, 2026	100%	Inactive	6	36.9460, -118.2400	—
Batchelder Fire	Jul 10, 2026	—	Inactive	1	37.2460, -118.1848	37.2447, -118.1895
Totals	2026 Season Fires 6	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 14,859

Land cover · Inyo County 2026

Burned acres in Inyo 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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Forest ownership · Inyo County 2026

Burned forest acres in Inyo 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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Burn severity · Inyo County 2026

Burned acres in Inyo County 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.

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