2026 Mississippi Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

35 2026 Season Fires ▲ +32 (+1067%) vs same period last year

7,253 2026 Season Acres ▲ +7,036 (+3242%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Mississippi

Sep 1 Started Smod Fire

Aug 21 Started 78 acres 60 football fields Widow Fire

Aug 19 Started 16 acres 12 football fields Hurricane Fire

Jul 20 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Bunkley 1 Fire

Apr 23 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Gregory Fire

Apr 16 Started 319 acres 245 football fields Janney Fire

Largest wildfires in Mississippi this season

3,525 Acres 2.9x the size of Lincoln Park 68% the size of JFK Airport Range 6 Fire New Augusta

600 Acres Slightly smaller than Central Park 462 football fields Kataja Fire New Augusta

500 Acres 59% the size of Central Park 385 football fields Smoke Show Fire New Augusta

319 Acres 245 football fields Janney Fire New Augusta

315 Acres 242 football fields 305 H Fire New Augusta

312 Acres 240 football fields Mill Creek Fire Wiggins

All 2026 Mississippi Fires · 35 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Mississippi. 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 Mississippi, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Mississippi is listed too, at its Mississippi acres, and is not added to the Mississippi fire counts.

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Fire	County	Start date	Containment	Status	Acres	Center	Ignition point
Range 6 Fire	Perry	Feb 20, 2026	90%	Inactive	3,525	31.1008, -89.0733	31.0908, -89.0617
Kataja Fire	Perry	Feb 25, 2026	90%	Inactive	600	31.1256, -89.0766	31.1242, -89.0786
Smoke Show Fire	Perry	Apr 11, 2026	—	Inactive	500	31.1119, -89.1031	31.0924, -89.1170
Janney Fire	Forrest	Apr 16, 2026	100%	Inactive	319	31.1073, -89.1628	31.1062, -89.1606
305 H Fire	Perry	Feb 20, 2026	100%	Inactive	315	31.1108, -89.0575	31.1082, -89.0601
Mill Creek Fire	Forrest	Mar 4, 2026	90%	Inactive	312	30.9415, -89.2433	30.9464, -89.2334
Cha Jim Road Rx Fire	Neshoba	Feb 14, 2026	—	Inactive	276	32.8235, -89.2798	32.8225, -89.2791
Vick Fy26 Rx Fire	Warren	Feb 22, 2026	—	Inactive	225	32.3522, -90.8520	32.3707, 0.0000
Nova Fire	Forrest	Feb 21, 2026	—	Inactive	188	30.9505, -89.2962	30.9600, -89.2892
Junebug Fire	Wilkinson	Mar 27, 2026	100%	Inactive	134	31.2599, -91.2234	31.2657, -91.2117
Wolf Creek Rx Fire	Neshoba	Feb 20, 2026	—	Inactive	118	32.7832, -89.1943	32.7828, -89.1935
Nps Witchdance East Rx Fire	Chickasaw	Mar 18, 2026	—	Inactive	115	33.9427, -88.9258	33.9275, -88.9250
Ballard Fire	Choctaw	Mar 2, 2026	—	Inactive	110	33.4036, -89.2790	33.4458, -89.2346
East Lake Rx Fire	Neshoba	Feb 20, 2026	—	Inactive	104	32.7966, -89.2400	32.8068, -89.2466
Tucker Rx Fire	Neshoba	Feb 19, 2026	—	Inactive	82	32.7315, -89.0543	32.7294, -89.0567
Widow Fire	Jones	Aug 21, 2026	—	Inactive	78	31.5765, -89.0332	31.5740, -89.0317
Harder Times Fire	Wilkinson	Mar 29, 2026	—	Inactive	67	31.3088, -91.0941	31.3112, -91.0930
Eulamay Fire	Perry	Feb 22, 2026	—	Inactive	56	31.0657, -89.1172	31.0659, -89.1149
Guis Davis Bayou Rx Fire	Jackson	Feb 24, 2026	—	Inactive	33	30.3908, -88.7904	30.3919, -88.7897
562 C Fire	Scott	Mar 29, 2026	—	Inactive	26	32.2729, -89.5427	32.3015, -89.5265
Natr Hq Unit Rx Fire	Lee	Mar 21, 2026	—	Inactive	20	34.3272, -88.7087	34.3275, -88.7089
Hurricane Fire	Harrison	Aug 19, 2026	—	Inactive	16	30.6307, -88.9237	30.6331, -88.9175
Ester Mill Rd Fire	Leake	Feb 27, 2026	—	Inactive	12	32.6341, -89.4613	32.6345, -89.4629
Workover Fire	Franklin	Mar 2, 2026	—	Inactive	7	31.4590, -91.0246	31.4590, -91.0240
Railroad Fire	Greene	Feb 14, 2026	—	Inactive	5	31.0082, -88.7925	31.0420, -88.8008
First Fire	Tippah	Mar 4, 2026	—	Inactive	4	34.9220, -88.9900	34.9211, -88.9879
Bunkley 1 Fire	Franklin	Jul 20, 2026	—	Inactive	1	31.3735, -91.0368	31.6033, -90.7438
Gregory Fire	Winston	Apr 23, 2026	—	Inactive	1	33.1773, -88.9622	33.1772, -88.9621
Shady Pine Fire	Jackson	Apr 15, 2026	—	Inactive	1	30.4873, -88.8404	30.4868, -88.8394
Glenn'S Cemetary Fire	Winston	Apr 15, 2026	—	Inactive	1	33.2002, -88.8746	33.1998, -88.8800
Lost Rabbit Fire	Madison	Mar 3, 2026	—	Inactive	1	32.4506, -90.0699	32.4508, -90.0693
Preserve Entry Fire	Jackson	Jan 20, 2026	—	Inactive	1	30.4728, -88.7170	—
Smod Fire	Amite	Sep 1, 2026	—	Inactive	0	31.3372, -90.8871	31.3370, -90.8860
Triple T Fire	Franklin	Feb 28, 2026	—	Inactive	0	31.3660, -90.9362	31.3668, -90.9328
Goose Fire	Perry	Feb 15, 2026	—	Inactive	0	31.0058, -89.1035	31.0054, -89.1048
Totals		2026 Season Fires 35	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 7,253

Land cover · Mississippi 2026

Burned acres in Mississippi 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 Mississippi	% of burned	% of Mississippi
Forest	10,011	85.2%	61.8%
Range (shrubland)	23	0.2%	0.2%
Grassland	1,425	12.1%	18.7%
Other	294	2.5%	19.2%
Burned in from another state or province	1	—	—
Measured acres in Mississippi	11,752	—	—

Measured fires

Fire	Reported acres	Acres in Mississippi	Forest	Range (shrubland)	Grassland	Other
Smoke Show Fire	500	4,896	3,959	17	870	50
Range 6 Fire	3,525	3,528	3,244	2	187	95
Kataja Fire	600	655	524	2	111	19
Janney Fire	319	320	235	1	64	20
Mill Creek Fire	312	300	289	0	0	11
Cha Jim Road Rx Fire	276	276	274	0	0	2
Vick Fy26 Rx Fire	225	224	44	0	139	41
Nova Fire	188	169	169	0	0	0
305 H Fire	315	165	157	0	8	0
Junebug Fire	134	135	132	0	0	3
Wolf Creek Rx Fire	118	118	114	0	0	4
Ballard Fire	110	108	104	0	0	4
East Lake Rx Fire	104	104	93	0	9	3
Nps Witchdance East Rx Fire	115	102	87	0	0	14
Glenn'S Cemetary Fire	1	100	95	0	3	2
Tucker Rx Fire	82	83	75	0	5	3
Widow Fire	78	78	76	0	0	2
First Fire	4	75	69	0	0	5
Harder Times Fire	67	68	63	0	0	5
Eulamay Fire	56	56	51	0	5	0
Triple T Fire	0	55	53	0	1	1
562 C Fire	26	34	33	0	0	1
Guis Davis Bayou Rx Fire	33	34	24	0	5	5
Hurricane Fire	16	16	12	0	4	0
Ester Mill Rd Fire	12	13	0	0	12	1
Natr Hq Unit Rx Fire	20	12	10	0	0	2
Workover Fire	7	9	8	0	0	1
Shady Pine Fire	1	7	7	0	0	0
Railroad Fire	5	6	5	0	0	0
Bunkley 1 Fire	1	2	1	0	0	1
Preserve Entry Fire	1	1	1	0	0	0
Goose Fire	0	1	1	0	0	0
Lost Rabbit Fire	1	1	1	0	0	0
Gregory Fire	1	1	1	0	0	0
Smod Fire	0	1	1	0	0	0
State Line Fire burned in from another state or province	1	1	0	0	0	1

Reconciliation

Line	Fires	Acres
Counted fires	35	7,253
Offered to measurement	35	7,253
Complex roll-up residue	—	0
Fires with cells	35	7,253
Awaiting a perimeter	0	0
Awaiting measurement	0	0
Measurement errors	0	0
Smaller than one cell	0	0
Every cell outside Mississippi	0	0
Measured acres in Mississippi	35	11,752
Measured acres outside Mississippi	—	0
Whole perimeter acres	—	11,752
Reported minus measured	—	-4,499
Burned in from another state or province	1	1

Forest ownership · Mississippi 2026

Burned forest acres in Mississippi 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 Mississippi	% of burned forest	% of Mississippi's forestland
Public	6,203	62.0%	13.3%
Federal	6,201	61.9%	8.9%
State	2	0.0%	4.0%
Local (county, city)	0	0.0%	0.4%
Tribal	432	4.3%	0.1%
Tribal	432	4.3%	0.1%
Private	1,318	13.2%	86.6%
Family	1,169	11.7%	58.7%
Corporate	19	0.2%	11.5%
TIMO/REIT	129	1.3%	13.0%
Other private	1	0.0%	3.4%
Ownership not modeled	2,058	20.6%	—
Burned forest in Mississippi	10,011	—	—

Fires by owner

Fire	Forest acres in Mississippi	Federal	State	Tribal	Private	Not modeled
Smoke Show Fire	3,959	2,214	0	0	567	1,178
Range 6 Fire	3,244	2,531	0	0	154	559
Kataja Fire	524	320	0	0	43	161
Mill Creek Fire	289	286	0	0	0	2
Cha Jim Road Rx Fire	274	0	0	223	48	4
Janney Fire	235	150	0	0	0	85
Nova Fire	169	165	2	0	1	1
305 H Fire	157	154	0	0	0	2
Junebug Fire	132	52	0	0	77	3
Wolf Creek Rx Fire	114	0	0	54	59	2
Ballard Fire	104	0	0	0	104	0
Glenn'S Cemetary Fire	95	27	0	0	66	2
East Lake Rx Fire	93	0	0	90	0	3
Nps Witchdance East Rx Fire	87	24	0	0	63	0
Widow Fire	76	71	0	0	0	5
Tucker Rx Fire	75	0	0	65	2	8
First Fire	69	69	0	0	0	0
Harder Times Fire	63	46	0	0	14	3
Triple T Fire	53	0	0	0	52	0
Eulamay Fire	51	18	0	0	20	14
Vick Fy26 Rx Fire	44	10	0	0	28	6
562 C Fire	33	32	0	0	1	0
Guis Davis Bayou Rx Fire	24	5	0	0	0	19
Hurricane Fire	12	12	0	0	0	0
Natr Hq Unit Rx Fire	10	0	0	0	10	0
Workover Fire	8	8	0	0	1	0
Shady Pine Fire	7	0	0	0	6	0
Railroad Fire	5	5	0	0	0	0
Preserve Entry Fire	1	0	0	0	1	0
Goose Fire	1	1	0	0	0	0
Lost Rabbit Fire	1	0	0	0	1	0
Gregory Fire	1	0	0	0	1	0
Bunkley 1 Fire	1	0	0	0	0	1
Smod Fire	1	1	0	0	0	0