2026 Essex County, Massachusetts Wildfires
Newest wildfires in Essex County
Largest wildfires in Essex County this season
All 2026 Essex County Fires · 6 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Essex 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 Essex County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Essex County is listed too, at its Essex County acres, and is not added to the Essex County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Essex County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.
| Fire | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Moriah 2 Fire | Apr 23, 2026 | — | Inactive | 23 | 42.4837, -70.9998 | — |
| Bow Ridge 2 Fire | Jun 14, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 42.4987, -70.9897 | — |
| Fd05027 Fire | May 8, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 42.6832, -71.1764 | — |
| Fd05016 Fire | Apr 26, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 42.8429, -70.9045 | — |
| Fd05005 Fire | Apr 23, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 42.7985, -70.8740 | — |
| Fd05014 Fire | Apr 23, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 | 42.7861, -71.1673 | — |
| Also burned into Essex County | ||||||
| Tuxbury Pond Fire from Rockingham County | Jun 13, 2026 | — | Inactive | 0 of 0 | 42.8651, -70.9911 | — |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 6 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2026 Season Acres 23 | ||
Land cover · Essex County 2026
Burned acres in Essex 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.
Forest ownership · Essex County 2026
Burned forest acres in Essex 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.
Burn severity · Essex County 2026
Burned acres in Essex County 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.