2026 Elbert County, Colorado Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
5,449 2026 Season Acres ▲ +5,449 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Elbert County

Feb 17 Started 5,586 acres About the size of JFK Airport 4.6x the size of Lincoln Park County Rd 169 Fire

Largest wildfires in Elbert County this season

5,586 Acres About the size of JFK Airport 4.6x the size of Lincoln Park County Rd 169 Fire Limon

All 2026 Elbert County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Elbert 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 Elbert County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Elbert County is listed too, at its Elbert County acres, and is not added to the Elbert County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Elbert 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
County Rd 169 Fire Feb 17, 2026 100% Inactive 5,449 of 5,586 39.1239, -103.8011 39.1212, -103.8690
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 5,449

Land cover · Elbert County 2026

Burned acres in Elbert 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 Elbert County % of burned % of Elbert County
Forest 0 0.0% 2.6%
Range (shrubland) 9 0.2% 3.3%
Grassland 3,967 72.6% 87.5%
Other 1,486 27.2% 6.6%
Measured acres in Elbert County 5,463 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Elbert County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
County Rd 169 Fire 5,586 5,463 (of 5,599) 0 9 3,967 1,486 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 5,586
Offered to measurement 1 5,586
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 5,586
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Elbert County 0 0
Measured acres in Elbert County 1 5,463
Measured acres outside Elbert County — 136
Whole perimeter acres — 5,599
Reported minus measured — -13
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Elbert County 2026

Burned forest acres in Elbert 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 Elbert County % of burned forest % of Elbert County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 3.5%
Federal 0 0.0% 0.0%
State 0 0.0% 3.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 96.5%
Family 0 0.0% 96.5%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0 100.0% —
Burned forest in Elbert County 0 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Elbert County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
County Rd 169 Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 1 0
Land cover Forest cells 1 0
Equal 1

Search Fires

🔥 County Rd 169 Fire 2026
Started: Feb 17 5,586 acre 100% contained
Near Limon · Elbert County, Colorado