2026 Iowa Wildfires
Newest wildfires in Iowa
Largest wildfires in Iowa this season
All 2026 Iowa Fires · 10 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Iowa. 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 the border is listed with the acres that burned in Iowa, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Iowa is listed too, at its Iowa acres, and is not added to the Iowa fire counts.
| Fire | County | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Lake Fire | Hancock | May 12, 2026 | — | Inactive | 616 | 43.1272, -93.7283 | — |
| Tomahawk Fire | Sac | Feb 18, 2026 | — | Inactive | 200 | 42.3623, -95.0440 | — |
| Hawkins 2 Fire | Iowa | Mar 24, 2026 | — | Inactive | 192 | 41.8333, -92.2065 | — |
| Gorsch 26 Fire | Iowa | Mar 27, 2026 | — | Inactive | 137 | 41.8189, -92.1568 | — |
| Koszta Road Fire | Iowa | Mar 28, 2026 | — | Inactive | 37 | 41.8226, -92.1879 | — |
| Turkey Landing Fire | Clayton | Mar 20, 2026 | — | Inactive | 11 | 42.7109, -91.0147 | — |
| North Formanek Fire | Iowa | Mar 24, 2026 | — | Inactive | 10 | 41.8234, -92.1568 | — |
| Morse Point Fire | Wright | Apr 15, 2026 | — | Inactive | 5 | 42.8059, -93.6770 | — |
| Montgomery Fire | Dickinson | May 13, 2026 | — | Inactive | 4 | 43.4426, -95.1993 | — |
| 141 Edgewood Fire | Tama | Mar 12, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 42.0133, -92.6413 | — |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 10 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2026 Season Acres 1,212 |
Land cover · Iowa 2026
Burned acres in Iowa 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 · Iowa 2026
Burned forest acres in Iowa 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 · Iowa 2026
Burned acres in Iowa 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.