2026 Churchill County, Nevada Wildfires

2 Active Fires

44,873 Acres Burning About the size of Washington D.C.

5 2026 Season Fires ▲ +5 vs same period last year

54,113 2026 Season Acres ▲ +54,113 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Churchill County

Aug 25 Started 9,218 acres 10.9x the size of Central Park 1.8x the size of JFK Airport Blue Eagle Fire

Aug 15 Started 22 acres 17 football fields Healy Fire

Aug 15 Started 24,513 acres About the size of Galveston Island 29.1x the size of Central Park Shoshone Fire

Jul 26 Started 37,899 acres Slightly smaller than Washington D.C. 45.0x the size of Central Park New Pass

Jul 15 Started Smooth Canyon Fire

Largest wildfires in Churchill County this season

37,899 Acres Slightly smaller than Washington D.C. 45.0x the size of Central Park New Pass

24,513 Acres About the size of Galveston Island 29.1x the size of Central Park Shoshone Fire

9,218 Acres 10.9x the size of Central Park 1.8x the size of JFK Airport Blue Eagle Fire

22 Acres 17 football fields Healy Fire

All 2026 Churchill County Fires · 5 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Churchill 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 Churchill County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Churchill County is listed too, at its Churchill County acres, and is not added to the Churchill County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Churchill 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
New Pass	Jul 26, 2026	81%	Active	20,360 of 37,899	39.6427, -117.4724	39.6988, -117.4870
Shoshone Fire	Aug 15, 2026	92%	Active	24,513	39.7937, -117.5912	39.8299, -117.6762
Blue Eagle Fire	Aug 25, 2026	90%	Inactive	9,218	39.7341, -117.6848	39.6172, -117.6710
Healy Fire	Aug 15, 2026	—	Inactive	22	39.6527, -117.7574	39.6557, -117.7507
Smooth Canyon Fire	Jul 15, 2026	—	Inactive	0	39.7208, -117.6727	39.6535, -117.5027
Totals	2026 Season Fires 5	Active Fires 2	Acres Burning 44,873	2026 Season Acres 54,113

Land cover · Churchill County 2026

Burned acres in Churchill 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 · Churchill County 2026

Burned forest acres in Churchill 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 · Churchill County 2026

Burned acres in Churchill 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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