2026 Power County, Idaho Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +0 (+0%) vs same period last year
2,516 2026 Season Acres ▼ -351 (-12%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Power County

Jul 29 Started 2,516 acres 3.0x the size of Central Park Lake Channel Fire

Largest wildfires in Power County this season

2,516 Acres 3.0x the size of Central Park Lake Channel Fire American Falls

All 2026 Power County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Power 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 Power County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Power County is listed too, at its Power County acres, and is not added to the Power County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Power 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
Lake Channel Fire Jul 29, 2026 90% Inactive 2,516 42.6747, -113.0460 42.6700, -113.0037
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 2,516

Land cover · Power County 2026

Burned acres in Power 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.

Forest ownership · Power County 2026

Burned forest acres in Power 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.

Burn severity · Power County 2026

Burned acres in Power 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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🔥 Lake Channel Fire 2026
Started: Jul 29 2,516 acre 90% contained