2026 Union County, Illinois Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
3 2026 Season Acres ▲ +3 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Union County

Mar 26 Started 3 acres 2 football fields Dry Branch Fire

Largest wildfires in Union County this season

3 Acres 2 football fields Dry Branch Fire Cobden

All 2026 Union County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Union 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 Union County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Union County is listed too, at its Union County acres, and is not added to the Union County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Union 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
Dry Branch Fire Mar 26, 2026 Inactive 3 37.5510, -89.3506 37.5522, -89.3490
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 3

Land cover · Union County 2026

Burned acres in Union 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 Union County % of burned % of Union County
Forest 14 98.5% 52.9%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Grassland 0 0.0% 22.7%
Other 0 1.5% 24.4%
Measured acres in Union County 14
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Union County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Dry Branch Fire 3 14 14 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 3
Offered to measurement 1 3
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 3
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Union County 0 0
Measured acres in Union County 1 14
Measured acres outside Union County 0
Whole perimeter acres 14
Reported minus measured -11
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Union County 2026

Burned forest acres in Union 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 Union County % of burned forest % of Union County's forestland
Public 14 96.9% 45.1%
Federal 14 96.9% 30.3%
State 0 0.0% 14.7%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 54.9%
Family 0 0.0% 54.8%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.1%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0 3.1%
Burned forest in Union County 14
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Union County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Dry Branch Fire 14 14 0 0 0 0 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 64 14
Land cover Forest cells 64 14
Equal 64

Search Fires

🔥 Dry Branch Fire 2026
Started: Mar 26 3 acre