2025 Custer County, Montana Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
7 2025 Season Fires ▲ +7 vs same period last year
748 2025 Season Acres ▲ +748 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Custer County

Sep 17 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Airport -Custer Fire
Sep 16 Started 4 acres 3 football fields Maggie Creek -Custer Fire
Sep 12 Started 135 acres 104 football fields High Fire
Sep 1 Started 50 acres 38 football fields Breaks Coulee Fire
Aug 13 Started 61 acres 47 football fields Brown S Fire
Jul 22 Started Sh 2 -Custer Fire

Largest wildfires in Custer County this season

497 Acres 59% the size of Central Park 382 football fields Miller Creek Fire Ashland
135 Acres 104 football fields High Fire Terry
61 Acres 47 football fields Brown S Fire Broadus
50 Acres 38 football fields Breaks Coulee Fire Ashland
4 Acres 3 football fields Maggie Creek -Custer Fire Miles City
1 Acres 1 football fields Airport -Custer Fire Miles City

All 2025 Custer County Fires · 7 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Custer 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 Custer County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Custer County is listed too, at its Custer County acres, and is not added to the Custer County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Custer 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
Miller Creek Fire Jul 3, 2025 100% Inactive 497 46.0458, -106.1563 46.0450, -106.1688
High Fire Sep 12, 2025 40% Inactive 135 46.3103, -105.0497 46.3132, -105.0514
Brown S Fire Aug 13, 2025 — Inactive 61 45.8430, -105.7452 45.8289, -105.7901
Breaks Coulee Fire Sep 1, 2025 — Inactive 50 45.8111, -106.0565 45.8822, -106.0125
Maggie Creek -Custer Fire Sep 16, 2025 — Inactive 4 46.0050, -105.6090 46.0043, -105.6092
Airport -Custer Fire Sep 17, 2025 — Inactive 1 46.4127, -105.8972 46.4076, -105.9069
Sh 2 -Custer Fire Jul 22, 2025 — Inactive 0 45.9517, -106.0698 45.9518, -106.0699
Totals 2025 Season Fires 7 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 748

Land cover · Custer County 2025

Burned acres in Custer 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 · Custer County 2025

Burned forest acres in Custer 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 · Custer County 2025

Burned acres in Custer 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

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🔥 Airport -Custer Fire 2025
Started: Sep 17 1 acre
🔥 Maggie Creek -Custer Fire 2025
Started: Sep 16 4 acre
🔥 High Fire 2025
Started: Sep 12 135 acre 40% contained
🔥 Breaks Coulee Fire 2025
Started: Sep 1 50 acre
🔥 Brown S Fire 2025
Started: Aug 13 61 acre
🔥 Sh 2 -Custer Fire 2025
Started: Jul 22 0 acre