2026 Newaygo County, Michigan Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

10 2026 Season Fires ▲ +9 (+900%) vs same period last year

29 2026 Season Acres ▲ +12 (+71%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Newaygo County

Aug 2 Started 56th Street Fire

Jul 22 Started Mullet Fire

May 22 Started Newaygo-02 Veteran Fire

May 14 Started Cypress Fire

May 8 Started Monroe Fire

May 4 Started 22 acres 17 football fields Vadar Fire

Largest wildfires in Newaygo County this season

22 Acres 17 football fields Vadar Fire White Cloud

5 Acres 4 football fields 5525 Fire Baldwin

1 Acres 1 football fields Beautiful Fire White Cloud

1 Acres 1 football fields Poplar Fire White Cloud

All 2026 Newaygo County Fires · 10 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Newaygo 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 Newaygo County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Newaygo County is listed too, at its Newaygo County acres, and is not added to the Newaygo County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Newaygo 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
Vadar Fire	May 4, 2026	—	Inactive	22	43.6922, -85.7578	43.6896, -85.7606
5525 Fire	May 4, 2026	—	Inactive	5	43.7260, -85.9177	43.7470, -85.8617
Beautiful Fire	May 4, 2026	—	Inactive	1	43.5480, -85.6866	43.5473, -85.6867
Poplar Fire	Mar 28, 2026	—	Inactive	1	43.5193, -85.7260	43.5187, -85.7239
56th Street Fire	Aug 2, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.4535, -85.6835	43.4536, -85.6836
Mullet Fire	Jul 22, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.7015, -85.9985	43.6698, -85.9996
Newaygo-02 Veteran Fire	May 22, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.5688, -85.8599	—
Cypress Fire	May 14, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.4434, -85.6105	43.4431, -85.6225
Monroe Fire	May 8, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.5897, -85.9558	43.5884, -85.9568
Orion Fire	Mar 30, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.5795, -85.5645	43.5774, -85.5639
Totals	2026 Season Fires 10	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 29

Land cover · Newaygo County 2026

Burned acres in Newaygo 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 Newaygo County	% of burned	% of Newaygo County
Forest	28	88.0%	71.1%
Range (shrubland)	0	0.0%	0.8%
Grassland	1	3.5%	8.1%
Other	3	8.5%	20.0%
Measured acres in Newaygo County	32	—	—

Measured fires

Fire	Reported acres	Acres in Newaygo County	Forest	Grassland	Other
Vadar Fire	22	22	20	0	2
5525 Fire	5	6	6	0	0
Poplar Fire	1	1	0	1	0
Beautiful Fire	1	1	1	0	0
Cypress Fire	0	1	0	0	1
Orion Fire	0	0	0	0	0
Monroe Fire	0	0	0	0	0

Fires awaiting measurement

Fire	Whole perimeter acres	Reason
Newaygo-02 Veteran Fire	—	Smaller than one cell
Mullet Fire	—	Smaller than one cell
56th Street Fire	—	Smaller than one cell

Reconciliation

Line	Fires	Acres
Counted fires	10	29
Offered to measurement	10	29
Complex roll-up residue	—	0
Fires with cells	7	29
Awaiting a perimeter	0	0
Awaiting measurement	0	0
Measurement errors	0	0
Smaller than one cell	3	0
Every cell outside Newaygo County	0	0
Measured acres in Newaygo County	7	32
Measured acres outside Newaygo County	—	0
Whole perimeter acres	—	32
Reported minus measured	—	-3
Burned in from another county	0	0

Forest ownership · Newaygo County 2026

Burned forest acres in Newaygo 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 Newaygo County	% of burned forest	% of Newaygo County's forestland
Public	14	51.2%	36.5%
Federal	14	51.2%	31.0%
State	0	0.0%	1.6%
Local (county, city)	0	0.0%	3.9%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Private	11	40.0%	63.5%
Family	11	39.2%	57.5%
Corporate	0	0.8%	5.8%
TIMO/REIT	0	0.0%	0.0%
Other private	0	0.0%	0.2%
Ownership not modeled	2	8.8%	—
Burned forest in Newaygo County	28	—	—