2026 Boundary County, Idaho Wildfires

3 Active Fires

8,972 Acres Burning 61% the size of Manhattan

5 2026 Season Fires ▲ +5 vs same period last year

9,663 2026 Season Acres ▲ +9,663 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Boundary County

Aug 25 Started 2,593 acres 3.1x the size of Central Park Silver Fire

Aug 23 Started 1,531 acres 1.8x the size of Central Park Parker Lake Fire

Aug 19 Started 10 acres 8 football fields Caribou Fire

Jul 16 Started 681 acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Turner Fire

Jul 9 Started 4,848 acres About the size of JFK Airport 4.0x the size of Lincoln Park Upper Smith Fire

Largest wildfires in Boundary County this season

4,848 Acres About the size of JFK Airport 4.0x the size of Lincoln Park Upper Smith Fire Creston

2,593 Acres 3.1x the size of Central Park Silver Fire Ponderay

1,531 Acres 1.8x the size of Central Park Parker Lake Fire Creston

681 Acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Turner Fire Bonners Ferry

10 Acres 8 football fields Caribou Fire Bonners Ferry

All 2026 Boundary County Fires · 5 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Boundary 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 Boundary County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Boundary County is listed too, at its Boundary County acres, and is not added to the Boundary County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Boundary 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
Upper Smith Fire	Jul 9, 2026	41%	Active	4,848	48.9278, -116.5671	48.9265, -116.6022
Silver Fire	Aug 25, 2026	30%	Active	2,593	48.6366, -116.6492	48.6278, -116.6670
Parker Lake Fire	Aug 23, 2026	1%	Active	1,531	48.8776, -116.6131	48.6321, -116.6793
Turner Fire	Jul 16, 2026	100%	Inactive	681	48.8076, -116.3754	48.8257, -116.3573
Caribou Fire	Aug 19, 2026	—	Inactive	10	48.6424, -116.4868	48.6023, -116.4231
Totals	2026 Season Fires 5	Active Fires 3	Acres Burning 8,972	2026 Season Acres 9,663

Land cover · Boundary County 2026

Burned acres in Boundary 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 · Boundary County 2026

Burned forest acres in Boundary 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 · Boundary County 2026

Burned acres in Boundary 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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