2026 Maine Wildfires
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All 2026 Maine Fires · 12 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Maine. 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 the border is listed with the acres that burned in Maine, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Maine is listed too, at its Maine acres, and is not added to the Maine fire counts.
| Fire | County | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranger Academy Burn 1 Rx Fire | Washington | Sep 1, 2026 | — | Inactive | 20 | 44.9332, -67.8635 | — |
| Fy26 Boundary Piles Rx Fire | Hancock | Jun 18, 2026 | — | Inactive | 13 | 44.3228, -68.2155 | — |
| Pooler Farm Rx Fire | Hancock | Apr 25, 2026 | — | Inactive | 10 | 44.2914, -68.3997 | — |
| 1788297973 Fire | Penobscot | Aug 31, 2026 | — | Inactive | 3 | 45.3705, -68.5636 | — |
| Ot Htac Fire | Hancock | Aug 29, 2026 | — | Inactive | 3 | 44.4361, -68.7728 | — |
| Brown Hill Fire | Piscataquis | Jul 6, 2026 | — | Inactive | 1 | 45.1803, -69.5110 | — |
| 1779488609 Fire | Penobscot | May 21, 2026 | — | Inactive | 1 | 45.2475, -68.5993 | — |
| Sullivan 3 Fire | Androscoggin | May 19, 2026 | — | Inactive | 1 | 44.1860, -70.1424 | — |
| Center Minot Hill Fire | Androscoggin | May 17, 2026 | — | Inactive | 1 | 44.1147, -70.3075 | — |
| Salmon Fire | Piscataquis | Apr 28, 2026 | — | Inactive | 1 | 45.1946, -69.3117 | — |
| Peninsula Camp Fire | Hancock | May 22, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 44.6292, -68.4000 | — |
| 1777311317 Fire | Piscataquis | Apr 26, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 45.2330, -68.9559 | — |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 12 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2026 Season Acres 54 |
Land cover · Maine 2026
Burned acres in Maine 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.
Forest ownership · Maine 2026
Burned forest acres in Maine 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.
Burn severity · Maine 2026
Burned acres in Maine for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.
Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.
This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.