2025 Fergus County, Montana Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2025 Season Fires ▲ +2 vs same period last year
3,451 2025 Season Acres ▲ +3,451 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Fergus County

Aug 19 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Blue Jay Fire
Jul 3 Started 3,450 acres 4.1x the size of Central Park 66% the size of JFK Airport Wilder Fire

Largest wildfires in Fergus County this season

3,450 Acres 4.1x the size of Central Park 66% the size of JFK Airport Wilder Fire Hays
1 Acres 1 football fields Blue Jay Fire Hays

All 2025 Fergus County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Fergus 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 Fergus County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Fergus County is listed too, at its Fergus County acres, and is not added to the Fergus County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Fergus 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
Wilder Fire Jul 3, 2025 100% Inactive 3,450 47.5659, -108.4380 47.5148, -108.5386
Blue Jay Fire Aug 19, 2025 — Inactive 1 47.5905, -108.6717 47.6025, -108.5810
Totals 2025 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 3,451

Land cover · Fergus County 2025

Burned acres in Fergus 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 · Fergus County 2025

Burned forest acres in Fergus 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 · Fergus County 2025

Burned acres in Fergus 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

🔥 Blue Jay Fire 2025
Started: Aug 19 1 acre
🔥 Wilder Fire 2025
Started: Jul 3 3,450 acre 100% contained