2026 Thurston County, Nebraska Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
5 2026 Season Fires ▲ +5 vs same period last year
38 2026 Season Acres ▲ +38 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Thurston County

Jun 22 Started 1 acres 1 football fields J Ave Fire
Jun 15 Started North Main Fire
Jun 8 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Macy Bottom Fire
Apr 8 Started Ridge Creek Fire
Mar 2 Started 36 acres 28 football fields Bia 10-26 Fire

Largest wildfires in Thurston County this season

36 Acres 28 football fields Bia 10-26 Fire Macy
1 Acres 1 football fields J Ave Fire Macy
1 Acres 1 football fields Macy Bottom Fire Macy

All 2026 Thurston County Fires · 5 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Thurston 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 Thurston County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Thurston County is listed too, at its Thurston County acres, and is not added to the Thurston County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Thurston 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
Bia 10-26 Fire Mar 2, 2026 Inactive 36 42.1220, -96.4130
J Ave Fire Jun 22, 2026 Inactive 1 42.1494, -96.3699
Macy Bottom Fire Jun 8, 2026 Inactive 1 42.1183, -96.3161
North Main Fire Jun 15, 2026 Inactive 0 42.1345, -96.3559
Ridge Creek Fire Apr 8, 2026 Inactive 0 42.2387, -96.4679
Totals 2026 Season Fires 5 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 38

Land cover · Thurston County 2026

Burned acres in Thurston 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 Thurston County % of burned % of Thurston County
Forest 1 17.6% 8.3%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Grassland 2 58.8% 13.0%
Other 1 23.5% 78.7%
Measured acres in Thurston County 4
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Thurston County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Macy Bottom Fire 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
North Main Fire 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
J Ave Fire 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
Ridge Creek Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fires awaiting measurement
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Bia 10-26 Fire 36 Awaiting a perimeter
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 5 38
Offered to measurement 5 38
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 4 2
Awaiting a perimeter 1 36
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Thurston County 0 0
Measured acres in Thurston County 4 4
Measured acres outside Thurston County 0
Whole perimeter acres 4
Reported minus measured -2
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Thurston County 2026

Burned forest acres in Thurston 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 Thurston County % of burned forest % of Thurston County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 0.0%
Federal 0 0.0% 0.0%
State 0 0.0% 0.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 1 100.0% 99.8%
Tribal 1 100.0% 99.8%
Private 0 0.0% 0.2%
Family 0 0.0% 0.2%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0 0.0%
Burned forest in Thurston County 1
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Thurston County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Ridge Creek Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Main Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 3 1
Land cover Forest cells 3 1
Equal 3

Search Fires

🔥 J Ave Fire 2026
Started: Jun 22 1 acre
🔥 North Main Fire 2026
Started: Jun 15 0 acre
🔥 Macy Bottom Fire 2026
Started: Jun 8 1 acre
🔥 Ridge Creek Fire 2026
Started: Apr 8 0 acre
🔥 Bia 10-26 Fire 2026
Started: Mar 2 36 acre