2026 Rice County, Kansas Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
482 2026 Season Acres ▲ +482 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Rice County

Mar 27 Started 483 acres 57% the size of Central Park 372 football fields Rice Fire

Largest wildfires in Rice County this season

483 Acres 57% the size of Central Park 372 football fields Rice Fire Ellinwood

All 2026 Rice County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Rice 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 Rice County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Rice County is listed too, at its Rice County acres, and is not added to the Rice County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Rice 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
Rice Fire Mar 27, 2026 — Inactive 482 of 483 38.2093, -98.4673 38.2208, -98.4593
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 482

Land cover · Rice County 2026

Burned acres in Rice 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 Rice County % of burned % of Rice County
Forest 2 0.4% 2.5%
Range (shrubland) 2 0.3% 0.4%
Grassland 467 96.5% 33.5%
Other 14 2.8% 63.5%
Measured acres in Rice County 484 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Rice County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Rice Fire 483 484 (of 485) 2 2 467 14 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 483
Offered to measurement 1 483
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 483
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Rice County 0 0
Measured acres in Rice County 1 484
Measured acres outside Rice County — 2
Whole perimeter acres — 485
Reported minus measured — -2
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Rice County 2026

Burned forest acres in Rice 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 Rice County % of burned forest % of Rice County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 2.4%
Federal 0 0.0% 2.4%
State 0 0.0% 0.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 2 77.8% 97.6%
Family 2 77.8% 97.4%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.2%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0 22.2% —
Burned forest in Rice County 2 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Rice County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Rice Fire 2 0 0 0 0 2 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 9 2
Land cover Forest cells 9 2
Equal 9

Search Fires

🔥 Rice Fire 2026
Started: Mar 27 483 acre
Near Ellinwood · Rice County, Kansas