2026 Pulaski County, Missouri Wildfires

United StatesMissouri › Pulaski County

0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 vs same period last year
1,252 2026 Season Acres ▲ +1,252 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Pulaski County

Feb 27 Started 562 acres 67% the size of Central Park 432 football fields Preusch-Smith Rx Fire
Jan 19 Started 705 acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Range 24 Rx Fire

Largest wildfires in Pulaski County this season

705 Acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Range 24 Rx Fire Fort Leonard Wood
562 Acres 67% the size of Central Park 432 football fields Preusch-Smith Rx Fire Richland

All 2026 Pulaski County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Pulaski County is listed too, at its Pulaski County acres, and is not added to the Pulaski County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Pulaski 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
Range 24 Rx Fire Jan 19, 2026 Inactive 705 37.7055, -92.1313 37.6896, -92.1398
Preusch-Smith Rx Fire Feb 27, 2026 Inactive 547 of 562 37.7024, -92.3579 37.7033, -92.3558
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 1,252

Land cover · Pulaski County 2026

Burned acres in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County % of burned % of Pulaski County
Forest 2,044 77.5% 69.1%
Range (shrubland) 5 0.2% 0.1%
Grassland 404 15.3% 22.7%
Other 183 7.0% 8.2%
Measured acres in Pulaski County 2,636
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Pulaski County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Range 24 Rx Fire 705 2,089 1,588 5 324 171 0
Preusch-Smith Rx Fire 562 548 (of 563) 456 0 79 12 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 1,267
Offered to measurement 2 1,267
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 1,267
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Pulaski County 0 0
Measured acres in Pulaski County 2 2,636
Measured acres outside Pulaski County 15
Whole perimeter acres 2,651
Reported minus measured -1,384
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Pulaski County 2026

Burned forest acres in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County % of burned forest % of Pulaski County's forestland
Public 1,845 90.3% 36.5%
Federal 1,845 90.3% 36.4%
State 0 0.0% 0.1%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 63.5%
Family 0 0.0% 61.2%
Corporate 0 0.0% 2.2%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 198 9.7%
Burned forest in Pulaski County 2,044
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Pulaski County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Range 24 Rx Fire 1,588 1,420 0 0 0 0 168
Preusch-Smith Rx Fire 456 426 0 0 0 0 30

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 9,189 2,044
Land cover Forest cells 9,189 2,044
Equal 9,189

Search Fires

🔥 Preusch-Smith Rx Fire 2026
Started: Feb 27 562 acre
🔥 Range 24 Rx Fire 2026
Started: Jan 19 705 acre