2026 Choctaw County, Mississippi Wildfires

United StatesMississippi › Choctaw County

0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
110 2026 Season Acres ▲ +110 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Choctaw County

Mar 2 Started 110 acres 85 football fields Ballard Fire

Largest wildfires in Choctaw County this season

110 Acres 85 football fields Ballard Fire Eupora

All 2026 Choctaw County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Choctaw 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 Choctaw County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Choctaw County is listed too, at its Choctaw County acres, and is not added to the Choctaw County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Choctaw 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
Ballard Fire Mar 2, 2026 Inactive 110 33.4036, -89.2790 33.4458, -89.2346
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 110

Land cover · Choctaw County 2026

Burned acres in Choctaw 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 Choctaw County % of burned % of Choctaw County
Forest 104 96.1% 79.4%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.2%
Grassland 0 0.0% 15.4%
Other 4 3.9% 5.0%
Measured acres in Choctaw County 108
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Choctaw County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Ballard Fire 110 108 104 0 0 4 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 110
Offered to measurement 1 110
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 110
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Choctaw County 0 0
Measured acres in Choctaw County 1 108
Measured acres outside Choctaw County 0
Whole perimeter acres 108
Reported minus measured 2
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Choctaw County 2026

Burned forest acres in Choctaw 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 Choctaw County % of burned forest % of Choctaw County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 7.8%
Federal 0 0.0% 5.1%
State 0 0.0% 2.7%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 104 99.8% 92.2%
Family 104 99.8% 65.5%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 22.4%
Other private 0 0.0% 4.3%
Ownership not modeled 0 0.2%
Burned forest in Choctaw County 104
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Choctaw County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Ballard Fire 104 0 0 0 0 104 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 468 104
Land cover Forest cells 468 104
Equal 468

Search Fires

🔥 Ballard Fire 2026
Started: Mar 2 110 acre