2026 Lincoln County, Nevada Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
7 2026 Season Fires ▲ +4 (+133%) vs same period last year
61,080 2026 Season Acres ▲ +52,970 (+653%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Lincoln County

Sep 2 Started 33 acres 25 football fields Horsethief Fire
Jul 25 Started 13,619 acres About the size of Manhattan 16.2x the size of Central Park Quail Springs Fire
Jun 27 Started 2,264 acres 1.9x the size of Lincoln Park Parsnip Peak
Jun 27 Started 1,651 acres 2.0x the size of Central Park Dry Canyon Fire
Jun 17 Started 17,042 acres Slightly larger than Manhattan 14.1x the size of Lincoln Park Kane Springs
Jun 17 Started 26,464 acres About the size of Galveston Island 5.1x the size of JFK Airport Grapevine

Largest wildfires in Lincoln County this season

26,464 Acres About the size of Galveston Island 5.1x the size of JFK Airport Grapevine Caliente
17,042 Acres Slightly larger than Manhattan 14.1x the size of Lincoln Park Kane Springs Caliente
13,619 Acres About the size of Manhattan 16.2x the size of Central Park Quail Springs Fire Alamo
2,264 Acres 1.9x the size of Lincoln Park Parsnip Peak Pioche
1,651 Acres 2.0x the size of Central Park Dry Canyon Fire Pioche
33 Acres 25 football fields Horsethief Fire Pioche

All 2026 Lincoln County Fires · 7 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Lincoln County is listed too, at its Lincoln County acres, and is not added to the Lincoln County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Lincoln 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
Grapevine Jun 17, 2026 99% Inactive 26,464 37.4135, -114.2430 37.3808, -114.3047
Kane Springs Jun 17, 2026 99% Inactive 17,042 37.3571, -114.6547 37.2845, -114.6304
Quail Springs Fire Jul 25, 2026 100% Inactive 13,619 37.4596, -115.7016 37.4123, -115.7100
Parsnip Peak Jun 27, 2026 95% Inactive 2,264 38.1020, -114.2730 38.1039, -114.3487
Dry Canyon Fire Jun 27, 2026 0% Inactive 1,651 38.0261, -114.1465 37.9883, -114.1738
Horsethief Fire Sep 2, 2026 — Inactive 33 38.0169, -114.2600 37.9970, -114.2433
Cave Spring Fire Jun 13, 2026 — Inactive 7 37.5317, -114.2264 37.5370, -114.2043
Totals 2026 Season Fires 7 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 61,080

Land cover · Lincoln County 2026

Burned acres in Lincoln 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.

Forest ownership · Lincoln County 2026

Burned forest acres in Lincoln 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.

Burn severity · Lincoln County 2026

Burned acres in Lincoln 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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🔥 Horsethief Fire 2026
Started: Sep 2 33 acre
🔥 Quail Springs Fire 2026
Started: Jul 25 13,619 acre 100% contained
🔥 Parsnip Peak 2026
Started: Jun 27 2,264 acre 95% contained
🔥 Dry Canyon Fire 2026
Started: Jun 27 1,651 acre 0% contained
🔥 Kane Springs 2026
Started: Jun 17 17,042 acre 99% contained
🔥 Grapevine 2026
Started: Jun 17 26,464 acre 99% contained