2026 Jackson County, Illinois Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
4 2026 Season Fires ▲ +4 vs same period last year
1 2026 Season Acres ▲ +1 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Jackson County

Mar 30 Started Chrisenberry Fire
Mar 29 Started Oak Grove Fire
Mar 24 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Raddle Creek Fire
Feb 28 Started Black Pond Fire

Largest wildfires in Jackson County this season

1 Acres 1 football fields Raddle Creek Fire Ava

All 2026 Jackson County Fires · 4 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Jackson 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 Jackson County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Jackson County is listed too, at its Jackson County acres, and is not added to the Jackson County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Jackson 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
Raddle Creek Fire Mar 24, 2026 Inactive 1 37.7778, -89.5880 37.7723, -89.5791
Chrisenberry Fire Mar 30, 2026 Inactive 0 37.7765, -89.4517 37.7753, -89.4507
Oak Grove Fire Mar 29, 2026 Inactive 0 37.6392, -89.2372 37.6407, -89.2392
Black Pond Fire Feb 28, 2026 Inactive 0 37.6237, -89.3888 37.6227, -89.3890
Totals 2026 Season Fires 4 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 1

Land cover · Jackson County 2026

Burned acres in Jackson 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 Jackson County % of burned % of Jackson County
Forest 11 43.8% 42.9%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Grassland 11 42.9% 15.5%
Other 3 13.4% 41.6%
Measured acres in Jackson County 25
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Jackson County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Chrisenberry Fire 0 19 8 0 9 2 0
Black Pond Fire 0 4 3 0 1 0 0
Raddle Creek Fire 1 2 0 0 1 1 0
Oak Grove Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 4 1
Offered to measurement 4 1
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 4 1
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Jackson County 0 0
Measured acres in Jackson County 4 25
Measured acres outside Jackson County 0
Whole perimeter acres 25
Reported minus measured -24
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Jackson County 2026

Burned forest acres in Jackson 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 Jackson County % of burned forest % of Jackson County's forestland
Public 6 59.2% 37.0%
Federal 0 0.0% 31.4%
State 6 59.2% 5.6%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 2 22.4% 63.0%
Family 2 22.4% 58.0%
Corporate 0 0.0% 5.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 2 18.4%
Burned forest in Jackson County 11
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Jackson County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Chrisenberry Fire 8 0 6 0 0 0 1
Black Pond Fire 3 0 0 0 0 2 1
Oak Grove Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 49 11
Land cover Forest cells 49 11
Equal 49

Search Fires

🔥 Chrisenberry Fire 2026
Started: Mar 30 0 acre
🔥 Oak Grove Fire 2026
Started: Mar 29 0 acre
🔥 Raddle Creek Fire 2026
Started: Mar 24 1 acre
🔥 Black Pond Fire 2026
Started: Feb 28 0 acre