2026 Keith County, Nebraska Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
37,044 2026 Season Acres ▲ +37,044 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Keith County

Mar 13 Started 642,029 acres 2.1x the size of Los Angeles Slightly smaller than Rhode Island Morriel Fire

Largest wildfires in Keith County this season

642,029 Acres 2.1x the size of Los Angeles Slightly smaller than Rhode Island Morriel Fire Oshkosh

All 2026 Keith County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Keith 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 Keith County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Keith County is listed too, at its Keith County acres, and is not added to the Keith County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Keith 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
Morriel Fire Mar 13, 2026 100% Inactive 37,044 of 642,029 41.6410, -102.2830 41.0836, -101.7582
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 37,044

Land cover · Keith County 2026

Burned acres in Keith 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 Keith County % of burned % of Keith County
Forest 174 0.5% 1.4%
Range (shrubland) 37 0.1% 2.3%
Grassland 36,469 97.8% 61.8%
Other 607 1.6% 34.6%
Measured acres in Keith County 37,288 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Keith County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Morriel Fire 642,029 37,288 (of 642,024) 174 37 36,469 607 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 642,029
Offered to measurement 1 642,029
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 642,029
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Keith County 0 0
Measured acres in Keith County 1 37,288
Measured acres outside Keith County — 604,736
Whole perimeter acres — 642,024
Reported minus measured — 5
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Keith County 2026

Burned forest acres in Keith 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 Keith County % of burned forest % of Keith County's forestland
Public 117 67.3% 27.4%
Federal 0 0.0% 0.0%
State 117 67.3% 27.4%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 1 0.5% 72.6%
Family 0 0.0% 59.9%
Corporate 1 0.5% 12.8%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 56 32.2% —
Burned forest in Keith County 174 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Keith County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Morriel Fire 174 0 117 0 0 1 56

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 782 174
Land cover Forest cells 782 174
Equal 782

Search Fires

🔥 Morriel Fire 2026
Started: Mar 13 642,029 acre 100% contained
Near Oshkosh · Keith County, Nebraska