2026 Lincoln County, Idaho Wildfires

United StatesIdaho › Lincoln County

0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 vs same period last year
102,013 2026 Season Acres ▲ +102,013 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Lincoln County

Aug 24 Started 107,562 acres 4.0x the size of Hilton Head Island About the size of the city of Denver Wildhorse Fire
Aug 6 Started 9 acres 7 football fields Rural Assist 6 Fire

Largest wildfires in Lincoln County this season

107,562 Acres 4.0x the size of Hilton Head Island About the size of the city of Denver Wildhorse Fire Carey
9 Acres 7 football fields Rural Assist 6 Fire Carey

All 2026 Lincoln County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Lincoln County is listed too, at its Lincoln County acres, and is not added to the Lincoln County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Lincoln 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
Wildhorse Fire Aug 24, 2026 95% Inactive 102,004 of 107,562 43.1041, -113.9038 42.9817, -113.8086
Rural Assist 6 Fire Aug 6, 2026 Inactive 9 43.1570, -114.1863 43.1466, -114.1649
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 102,013

Land cover · Lincoln County 2026

Burned acres in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County % of burned % of Lincoln County
Forest 2 0.0% 0.1%
Range (shrubland) 89,343 87.5% 57.1%
Grassland 12,238 12.0% 30.6%
Other 509 0.5% 12.1%
Measured acres in Lincoln County 102,092
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Lincoln County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Wildhorse Fire 107,562 102,084 (of 107,563) 2 89,343 12,230 508 0
Rural Assist 6 Fire 9 9 0 0 7 1 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 107,571
Offered to measurement 2 107,571
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 107,571
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Lincoln County 0 0
Measured acres in Lincoln County 2 102,092
Measured acres outside Lincoln County 5,480
Whole perimeter acres 107,572
Reported minus measured -1
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Lincoln County 2026

Burned forest acres in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County % of burned forest % of Lincoln County's forestland
Public 1 36.4% 21.0%
Federal 0 0.0% 18.3%
State 1 36.4% 2.6%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 79.0%
Family 0 0.0% 79.0%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 2 63.6%
Burned forest in Lincoln County 2
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Lincoln County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Wildhorse Fire 2 0 1 0 0 0 2

1 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 11 2
Land cover Forest cells 11 2
Equal 11

Search Fires

🔥 Wildhorse Fire 2026
Started: Aug 24 107,562 acre 95% contained
🔥 Rural Assist 6 Fire 2026
Started: Aug 6 9 acre