2026 Beaverhead County, Montana Wildfires

2 Active Fires

46,416 Acres Burning About the size of Washington D.C.

4 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 (+100%) vs same period last year

47,461 2026 Season Acres ▲ +43,186 (+1010%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Beaverhead County

Aug 27 Started 978 acres Slightly larger than Central Park Roe 2 Fire

Aug 27 Started 67 acres 52 football fields Skull Fire

Aug 1 Started 35,520 acres Slightly smaller than Washington D.C. 6.8x the size of JFK Airport Sand Creek

Aug 1 Started 10,896 acres 9.0x the size of Lincoln Park 2.1x the size of JFK Airport Bobcat Lakes

Largest wildfires in Beaverhead County this season

35,520 Acres Slightly smaller than Washington D.C. 6.8x the size of JFK Airport Sand Creek Salmon

10,896 Acres 9.0x the size of Lincoln Park 2.1x the size of JFK Airport Bobcat Lakes Anaconda

978 Acres Slightly larger than Central Park Roe 2 Fire Dillon

67 Acres 52 football fields Skull Fire Anaconda

All 2026 Beaverhead County Fires · 4 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Beaverhead 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 Beaverhead County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Beaverhead County is listed too, at its Beaverhead County acres, and is not added to the Beaverhead County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Beaverhead 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
Sand Creek	Aug 1, 2026	87%	Active	35,520	45.4910, -113.2298	45.4363, -113.3327
Bobcat Lakes	Aug 1, 2026	95%	Active	10,896	45.6379, -113.1248	45.6111, -113.2288
Roe 2 Fire	Aug 27, 2026	100%	Inactive	978	44.9234, -112.7536	44.8952, -112.8203
Skull Fire	Aug 27, 2026	100%	Inactive	67	45.5804, -113.2160	45.5741, -113.2089
Totals	2026 Season Fires 4	Active Fires 2	Acres Burning 46,416	2026 Season Acres 47,461

Land cover · Beaverhead County 2026

Burned acres in Beaverhead 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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Forest ownership · Beaverhead County 2026

Burned forest acres in Beaverhead 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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Burn severity · Beaverhead County 2026

Burned acres in Beaverhead County for the 2026 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.

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