2025 McCreary County, Kentucky Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2025 Season Fires
10 2025 Season Acres

Newest wildfires in McCreary County

Dec 21 Started 10 acres 8 football fields Ste -Hayes Creek Fire

Largest wildfires in McCreary County this season

10 Acres 8 football fields Ste -Hayes Creek Fire Pine Knot

All 2025 McCreary County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in McCreary 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 McCreary County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into McCreary County is listed too, at its McCreary County acres, and is not added to the McCreary County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so McCreary 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
Ste -Hayes Creek Fire Dec 21, 2025 100% Inactive 10 36.6146, -84.3467 36.6125, -84.3483
Totals 2025 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 10

Land cover · McCreary County 2025

Burned acres in McCreary County for the 2025 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 McCreary County % of burned % of McCreary County
Forest 139 99.5% 91.1%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.1%
Grassland 0 0.0% 3.9%
Other 1 0.5% 4.9%
Measured acres in McCreary County 139
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in McCreary County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Ste -Hayes Creek Fire 10 139 139 0 0 1 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 10
Offered to measurement 1 10
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 10
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside McCreary County 0 0
Measured acres in McCreary County 1 139
Measured acres outside McCreary County 0
Whole perimeter acres 139
Reported minus measured -129
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · McCreary County 2025

Burned forest acres in McCreary County for the 2025 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 McCreary County % of burned forest % of McCreary County's forestland
Public 137 98.6% 83.3%
Federal 137 98.6% 82.3%
State 0 0.0% 1.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 1 1.0% 16.7%
Family 0 0.0% 15.0%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 1 1.0% 1.6%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 1 0.5%
Burned forest in McCreary County 139
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in McCreary County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Ste -Hayes Creek Fire 139 137 0 0 0 1 1

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 624 139
Land cover Forest cells 624 139
Equal 624

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🔥 Ste -Hayes Creek Fire 2025
Started: Dec 21 10 acre 100% contained