2026 Jackson County, Kentucky Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 vs same period last year
20 2026 Season Acres ▲ +20 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Jackson County

Apr 21 Started 15 acres 12 football fields Lon -Spice Lick Fire
Apr 15 Started 5 acres 4 football fields Kdf -Horse Lick #2 Fire

Largest wildfires in Jackson County this season

15 Acres 12 football fields Lon -Spice Lick Fire McKee
5 Acres 4 football fields Kdf -Horse Lick #2 Fire East Bernstadt

All 2026 Jackson County Fires · 2 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
Lon -Spice Lick Fire Apr 21, 2026 Inactive 15 37.5387, -83.9875 37.4926, -83.9958
Kdf -Horse Lick #2 Fire Apr 15, 2026 Inactive 5 37.3357, -84.1299 37.3288, -84.1323
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 20

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 30 100.0% 79.7%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.1%
Grassland 0 0.0% 15.1%
Other 0 0.0% 5.1%
Measured acres in Jackson County 30
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Jackson County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Lon -Spice Lick Fire 15 26 26 0 0 0 0
Kdf -Horse Lick #2 Fire 5 4 4 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 20
Offered to measurement 2 20
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 20
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 2 30
Measured acres outside Jackson County 0
Whole perimeter acres 30
Reported minus measured -10
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 14 44.9% 46.0%
Federal 14 44.9% 46.0%
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 17 55.1% 54.0%
Family 17 55.1% 51.1%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 3.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0 0.0%
Burned forest in Jackson County 30
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Jackson County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Lon -Spice Lick Fire 26 12 0 0 0 14 0
Kdf -Horse Lick #2 Fire 4 2 0 0 0 2 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 136 30
Land cover Forest cells 136 30
Equal 136

Search Fires

🔥 Lon -Spice Lick Fire 2026
Started: Apr 21 15 acre
🔥 Kdf -Horse Lick #2 Fire 2026
Started: Apr 15 5 acre