2026 Las Animas County, Colorado Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

7 2026 Season Fires ▲ +7 vs same period last year

9,083 2026 Season Acres ▲ +9,083 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Las Animas County

Aug 12 Started 23 acres 18 football fields Gotera Fire

Aug 12 Started 712 acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Sheep Pen Fire

Aug 12 Started 121 acres 93 football fields High Fence Fire

Aug 12 Started 4,343 acres Slightly smaller than JFK Airport 5.2x the size of Central Park Post Fire

Jun 10 Started 128 acres 98 football fields Bear Fire

Apr 24 Started 2,113 acres 1.7x the size of Lincoln Park Poitrey Canyon Fire

Largest wildfires in Las Animas County this season

4,343 Acres Slightly smaller than JFK Airport 5.2x the size of Central Park Post Fire Raton

2,113 Acres 1.7x the size of Lincoln Park Poitrey Canyon Fire La Junta

1,582 Acres 1.9x the size of Central Park Schwachheim Fire Raton

712 Acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Sheep Pen Fire Clayton

128 Acres 98 football fields Bear Fire Rocky Ford

121 Acres 93 football fields High Fence Fire Clayton

All 2026 Las Animas County Fires · 7 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Las Animas 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 Las Animas County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Las Animas County is listed too, at its Las Animas County acres, and is not added to the Las Animas County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Las Animas 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
Post Fire	Aug 12, 2026	90%	Inactive	4,343	37.0451, -104.4282	37.0819, -104.4214
Poitrey Canyon Fire	Apr 24, 2026	100%	Inactive	2,113	37.3389, -103.6528	37.3171, -103.6385
Schwachheim Fire	Apr 12, 2026	89%	Inactive	1,582	37.0151, -104.3931	37.0017, -104.3699
Sheep Pen Fire	Aug 12, 2026	80%	Inactive	712	37.0779, -103.2887	37.0765, -103.2817
Bear Fire	Jun 10, 2026	0%	Inactive	128	37.5637, -103.9953	37.4980, -104.1503
High Fence Fire	Aug 12, 2026	—	Inactive	121	37.0273, -103.4932	37.0261, -103.4897
Gotera Fire	Aug 12, 2026	—	Inactive	23	37.0584, -103.5704	37.0575, -103.5672
Also burned into Las Animas County
Wagon Wheel Fire from Baca County	Jun 23, 2026	—	Inactive	61 of 1,311	37.2175, -103.0692	37.1578, -103.0576
Totals	2026 Season Fires 7	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 9,083