2026 Meade County, Kansas Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
127,840 2026 Season Acres ▲ +127,840 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Meade County

May 18 Started 127,840 acres 2.9x the size of Washington D.C. Slightly larger than the city of Denver Southwest Kansas Wildfire Outbreak

Largest wildfires in Meade County this season

127,840 Acres 2.9x the size of Washington D.C. Slightly larger than the city of Denver Southwest Kansas Wildfire Outbreak Meade

All 2026 Meade County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Meade 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 Meade County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Meade County is listed too, at its Meade County acres, and is not added to the Meade County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Meade 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
Southwest Kansas Wildfire Outbreak May 18, 2026 0% Inactive 127,840 37.1650, -100.3740
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 127,840

Land cover · Meade County 2026

Burned acres in Meade 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 Meade County % of burned % of Meade County
Forest 0 0.3%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.6%
Grassland 0 61.8%
Other 0 37.3%
Measured acres in Meade County 0
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Meade County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Fires awaiting measurement
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Southwest Kansas Wildfire Outbreak 127,840 Awaiting a perimeter
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 127,840
Offered to measurement 1 127,840
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 0 0
Awaiting a perimeter 1 127,840
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Meade County 0 0
Measured acres in Meade County 0 0
Measured acres outside Meade County 0
Whole perimeter acres 0
Reported minus measured 0
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Meade County 2026

Burned forest acres in Meade 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 Meade County % of burned forest % of Meade County's forestland
Public 0 4.5%
Federal 0 0.0%
State 0 4.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0%
Private 0 95.5%
Family 0 95.5%
Corporate 0 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0
Burned forest in Meade County 0
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Meade County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 0 0
Land cover Forest cells 0 0
Equal 0

Search Fires

🔥 Southwest Kansas Wildfire Outbreak 2026
Started: May 18 127,840 acre 0% contained