2026 Penobscot County, Maine Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 (+100%) vs same period last year
4 2026 Season Acres ▲ +3 (+300%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Penobscot County

Aug 31 Started 3 acres 2 football fields 1788297973 Fire
May 21 Started 1 acres 1 football fields 1779488609 Fire

Largest wildfires in Penobscot County this season

3 Acres 2 football fields 1788297973 Fire Lincoln
1 Acres 1 football fields 1779488609 Fire Enfield

All 2026 Penobscot County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Penobscot 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 Penobscot County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Penobscot County is listed too, at its Penobscot County acres, and is not added to the Penobscot County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Penobscot 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
1788297973 Fire Aug 31, 2026 Inactive 3 45.3705, -68.5636
1779488609 Fire May 21, 2026 Inactive 1 45.2475, -68.5993
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 4

Land cover · Penobscot County 2026

Burned acres in Penobscot 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 Penobscot County % of burned % of Penobscot County
Forest 1 15.2% 83.7%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 2.0%
Grassland 4 57.6% 5.7%
Other 2 27.3% 8.6%
Measured acres in Penobscot County 7
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Penobscot County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
1788297973 Fire 3 7 1 0 4 2 0
1779488609 Fire 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 4
Offered to measurement 2 4
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 4
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Penobscot County 0 0
Measured acres in Penobscot County 2 7
Measured acres outside Penobscot County 0
Whole perimeter acres 7
Reported minus measured -3
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Penobscot County 2026

Burned forest acres in Penobscot 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 Penobscot County % of burned forest % of Penobscot County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 6.5%
Federal 0 0.0% 2.3%
State 0 0.0% 3.9%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.3%
Tribal 0 0.0% 3.6%
Tribal 0 0.0% 3.6%
Private 1 80.0% 89.9%
Family 0 40.0% 34.0%
Corporate 0 40.0% 27.3%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 27.6%
Other private 0 0.0% 1.1%
Ownership not modeled 0 20.0%
Burned forest in Penobscot County 1
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Penobscot County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
1788297973 Fire 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1779488609 Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 5 1
Land cover Forest cells 5 1
Equal 5

Search Fires

🔥 1788297973 Fire 2026
Started: Aug 31 3 acre
🔥 1779488609 Fire 2026
Started: May 21 1 acre