2026 Alexander County, Illinois Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 vs same period last year
15 2026 Season Acres ▲ +15 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Alexander County

Mar 31 Started 15 acres 12 football fields Devil'S Island Fire
Feb 28 Started Gilsen Hill Fire

Largest wildfires in Alexander County this season

15 Acres 12 football fields Devil'S Island Fire Cape Girardeau

All 2026 Alexander County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Alexander 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 Alexander County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Alexander County is listed too, at its Alexander County acres, and is not added to the Alexander County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Alexander 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
Devil'S Island Fire Mar 31, 2026 Inactive 15 37.3204, -89.4401 37.3203, -89.4391
Gilsen Hill Fire Feb 28, 2026 Inactive 0 37.1888, -89.3342 37.1883, -89.3335
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 15

Land cover · Alexander County 2026

Burned acres in Alexander 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 Alexander County % of burned % of Alexander County
Forest 4 23.1% 48.3%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Grassland 6 37.2% 12.4%
Other 7 39.7% 39.3%
Measured acres in Alexander County 17
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Alexander County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Devil'S Island Fire 15 15 2 0 6 7 0
Gilsen Hill Fire 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 15
Offered to measurement 2 15
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 15
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Alexander County 0 0
Measured acres in Alexander County 2 17
Measured acres outside Alexander County 0
Whole perimeter acres 17
Reported minus measured -2
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Alexander County 2026

Burned forest acres in Alexander 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 Alexander County % of burned forest % of Alexander County's forestland
Public 0 11.1% 50.7%
Federal 0 0.0% 45.1%
State 0 11.1% 5.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 11.1% 49.3%
Family 0 11.1% 49.3%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 3 77.8%
Burned forest in Alexander County 4
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Alexander County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Gilsen Hill Fire 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
Devil'S Island Fire 2 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 18 4
Land cover Forest cells 18 4
Equal 18

Search Fires

🔥 Devil'S Island Fire 2026
Started: Mar 31 15 acre
🔥 Gilsen Hill Fire 2026
Started: Feb 28 0 acre