2026 Knox County, Nebraska Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
2 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 vs same period last year
56 2026 Season Acres ▲ +56 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Knox County

Jul 18 Started 9 Mile Fire
Apr 22 Started 56 acres 43 football fields Cedar Draw Fire

Largest wildfires in Knox County this season

56 Acres 43 football fields Cedar Draw Fire Springfield

All 2026 Knox County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Knox 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 Knox County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Knox County is listed too, at its Knox County acres, and is not added to the Knox County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Knox 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
Cedar Draw Fire Apr 22, 2026 Inactive 56 42.7492, -97.8687
9 Mile Fire Jul 18, 2026 Inactive 0 42.8062, -97.8617
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 56

Land cover · Knox County 2026

Burned acres in Knox 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 Knox County % of burned % of Knox County
Forest 33 59.0% 10.4%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.1%
Grassland 20 36.7% 46.5%
Other 2 4.4% 43.0%
Measured acres in Knox County 56
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Knox County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Cedar Draw Fire 56 55 33 0 20 2 0
9 Mile Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 56
Offered to measurement 2 56
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 56
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Knox County 0 0
Measured acres in Knox County 2 56
Measured acres outside Knox County 0
Whole perimeter acres 56
Reported minus measured 0
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Knox County 2026

Burned forest acres in Knox 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 Knox County % of burned forest % of Knox County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 1.8%
Federal 0 0.0% 0.1%
State 0 0.0% 1.7%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 19 58.1% 18.6%
Tribal 19 58.1% 18.6%
Private 0 0.0% 79.7%
Family 0 0.0% 79.7%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 14 41.9%
Burned forest in Knox County 33
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Knox County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Cedar Draw Fire 33 0 0 0 19 0 14

1 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 148 33
Land cover Forest cells 148 33
Equal 148

Search Fires

🔥 9 Mile Fire 2026
Started: Jul 18 0 acre
🔥 Cedar Draw Fire 2026
Started: Apr 22 56 acre