2026 Ravalli County, Montana Wildfires

1 Active Fires

2,126 Acres Burning 1.8x the size of Lincoln Park

6 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 (+50%) vs same period last year

4,181 2026 Season Acres ▲ +3,969 (+1872%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Ravalli County

Aug 24 Started 46 acres 35 football fields Falls Point Fire

Aug 23 Started 1,422 acres Slightly larger than Lincoln Park Nature Grove Fire

Aug 2 Started 2,126 acres 1.8x the size of Lincoln Park Black Bear Fire

Aug 1 Started 67 acres 52 football fields Butterfly Fire

Jul 26 Started 118 acres 91 football fields North Fork Fire

Jul 3 Started 402 acres 309 football fields Deer Hollow Fire

Largest wildfires in Ravalli County this season

2,126 Acres 1.8x the size of Lincoln Park Black Bear Fire Corvallis

1,422 Acres Slightly larger than Lincoln Park Nature Grove Fire Corvallis

402 Acres 309 football fields Deer Hollow Fire Darby

118 Acres 91 football fields North Fork Fire Hamilton

67 Acres 52 football fields Butterfly Fire Corvallis

46 Acres 35 football fields Falls Point Fire Darby

All 2026 Ravalli County Fires · 6 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Ravalli 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 Ravalli County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Ravalli County is listed too, at its Ravalli County acres, and is not added to the Ravalli County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Ravalli 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
Black Bear Fire	Aug 2, 2026	80%	Active	2,126	46.1719, -113.8816	46.0080, -113.7341
Nature Grove Fire	Aug 23, 2026	0%	Inactive	1,422	46.1466, -113.9127	46.1609, -113.9598
Deer Hollow Fire	Jul 3, 2026	100%	Inactive	402	45.9805, -114.1343	45.9702, -114.1396
North Fork Fire	Jul 26, 2026	70%	Inactive	118	46.1608, -114.3378	46.1575, -114.1100
Butterfly Fire	Aug 1, 2026	97%	Inactive	67	46.2507, -113.9193	46.2508, -113.9219
Falls Point Fire	Aug 24, 2026	0%	Inactive	46	45.7037, -114.0618	45.7120, -114.0142
Totals	2026 Season Fires 6	Active Fires 1	Acres Burning 2,126	2026 Season Acres 4,181

Land cover · Ravalli County 2026

Burned acres in Ravalli 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 · Ravalli County 2026

Burned forest acres in Ravalli 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 · Ravalli County 2026

Burned acres in Ravalli 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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