2026 Phelps County, Nebraska Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
1,200 2026 Season Acres ▲ +1,200 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Phelps County

Mar 29 Started 1,200 acres About the size of Lincoln Park Bertrand Fire

Largest wildfires in Phelps County this season

1,200 Acres About the size of Lincoln Park Bertrand Fire Bertrand

All 2026 Phelps County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Phelps 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 Phelps County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Phelps County is listed too, at its Phelps County acres, and is not added to the Phelps County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Phelps 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
Bertrand Fire Mar 29, 2026 — Inactive 1,200 40.4969, -99.6072 40.4967, -99.6157
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 1,200

Land cover · Phelps County 2026

Burned acres in Phelps 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 Phelps County % of burned % of Phelps County
Forest 69 12.5% 0.9%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.2%
Grassland 460 83.6% 15.9%
Other 21 3.9% 83.0%
Measured acres in Phelps County 550 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Phelps County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Bertrand Fire 1,200 550 69 0 460 21 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 1,200
Offered to measurement 1 1,200
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 1,200
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Phelps County 0 0
Measured acres in Phelps County 1 550
Measured acres outside Phelps County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 550
Reported minus measured — 650
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Phelps County 2026

Burned forest acres in Phelps 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 Phelps County % of burned forest % of Phelps County's forestland
Public 14 19.7% 21.4%
Federal 0 0.0% 8.8%
State 14 19.7% 12.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 7 10.0% 78.6%
Family 7 10.0% 46.3%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 32.3%
Ownership not modeled 48 70.2% —
Burned forest in Phelps County 69 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Phelps County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Bertrand Fire 69 0 14 0 0 7 48

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 309 69
Land cover Forest cells 309 69
Equal 309

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🔥 Bertrand Fire 2026
Started: Mar 29 1,200 acre
Near Bertrand · Phelps County, Nebraska