2025 St. Louis County, Minnesota Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
5 2025 Season Fires ▲ +4 (+400%) vs same period last year
29,842 2025 Season Acres ▲ +29,842 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in St. Louis County

Oct 9 Started 22 acres 17 football fields Elephant Lake Fire
Oct 5 Started Hoo Doo Fire
May 13 Started 1,259 acres About the size of Lincoln Park Munger Shaw Fire
May 13 Started 16,490 acres Slightly larger than Manhattan 3.2x the size of JFK Airport Jenkins Creek Fire
May 12 Started 12,071 acres 10.0x the size of Lincoln Park Slightly smaller than Manhattan Camp House Fire

Largest wildfires in St. Louis County this season

16,490 Acres Slightly larger than Manhattan 3.2x the size of JFK Airport Jenkins Creek Fire Hoyt Lakes
12,071 Acres 10.0x the size of Lincoln Park Slightly smaller than Manhattan Camp House Fire Two Harbors
1,259 Acres About the size of Lincoln Park Munger Shaw Fire Arnold
22 Acres 17 football fields Elephant Lake Fire Cook

All 2025 St. Louis County Fires · 5 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in St. Louis 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 St. Louis County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into St. Louis County is listed too, at its St. Louis County acres, and is not added to the St. Louis County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so St. Louis 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
Jenkins Creek Fire May 13, 2025 100% Inactive 16,490 47.3760, -91.9840 —
Camp House Fire May 12, 2025 100% Inactive 12,071 47.2900, -91.8410 —
Munger Shaw Fire May 13, 2025 100% Inactive 1,259 47.0800, -92.3440 —
Elephant Lake Fire Oct 9, 2025 — Inactive 22 48.1735, -92.7929 48.1783, -92.7353
Hoo Doo Fire Oct 5, 2025 — Inactive 0 47.9686, -92.8061 47.9691, -92.8067
Totals 2025 Season Fires 5 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 29,842

Land cover · St. Louis County 2025

Burned acres in St. Louis 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.

Forest ownership · St. Louis County 2025

Burned forest acres in St. Louis 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.

Burn severity · St. Louis County 2025

Burned acres in St. Louis County for the 2025 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.

Search Fires

🔥 Elephant Lake Fire 2025
Started: Oct 9 22 acre
🔥 Hoo Doo Fire 2025
Started: Oct 5 0 acre
🔥 Munger Shaw Fire 2025
Started: May 13 1,259 acre 100% contained
🔥 Jenkins Creek Fire 2025
Started: May 13 16,490 acre 100% contained
🔥 Camp House Fire 2025
Started: May 12 12,071 acre 100% contained