2026 Nye County, Nevada Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
8 2026 Season Fires ▲ +6 (+300%) vs same period last year
52,070 2026 Season Acres ▲ +865 (+2%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Nye County

Aug 29 Started 3 acres 2 football fields Currant Creek Fire
Aug 24 Started 15 acres 12 football fields Buffalo 2 Fire
Aug 21 Started Menter Canyon Fire
Aug 9 Started 6 acres 5 football fields Wood Canyon Fire
Jul 24 Started 52,000 acres 2.0x the size of Galveston Island 10.0x the size of JFK Airport Mouse Meadow Fire
Jun 24 Started Mt Stirling 1 Fire

Largest wildfires in Nye County this season

52,000 Acres 2.0x the size of Galveston Island 10.0x the size of JFK Airport Mouse Meadow Fire Beatty
46 Acres 35 football fields Silver Creek Fire Tonopah
15 Acres 12 football fields Buffalo 2 Fire
6 Acres 5 football fields Wood Canyon Fire Pahrump
3 Acres 2 football fields Currant Creek Fire Ely

All 2026 Nye County Fires · 8 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Nye 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 Nye County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Nye County is listed too, at its Nye County acres, and is not added to the Nye County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Nye 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
Mouse Meadow Fire Jul 24, 2026 100% Inactive 52,000 37.2887, -116.0894 37.2661, -116.1561
Silver Creek Fire May 11, 2026 — Inactive 46 38.5903, -116.9574 38.5873, -116.9545
Buffalo 2 Fire Aug 24, 2026 — Inactive 15 39.0234, -117.7372 39.0192, -117.7393
Wood Canyon Fire Aug 9, 2026 — Inactive 6 36.3947, -115.9110 36.3947, -115.9117
Currant Creek Fire Aug 29, 2026 — Inactive 3 38.8269, -115.3211 38.8266, -115.3281
Menter Canyon Fire Aug 21, 2026 — Inactive 0 38.9340, -117.8042 38.9311, -117.8029
Mt Stirling 1 Fire Jun 24, 2026 — Inactive 0 36.4227, -115.9426 36.4166, -115.9417
Us 95 Mm 73 Fire May 11, 2026 — Inactive 0 37.0666, -116.7798 37.1170, -116.8167
Totals 2026 Season Fires 8 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 52,070

Land cover · Nye County 2026

Burned acres in Nye 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 Nye County % of burned % of Nye County
Forest 12,351 24.0% 16.5%
Range (shrubland) 36,379 70.6% 77.4%
Grassland 1,538 3.0% 0.8%
Other 1,239 2.4% 5.3%
Measured acres in Nye County 51,507 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Nye County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Mouse Meadow Fire 52,000 51,406 12,293 36,336 1,538 1,239 0
Silver Creek Fire 46 47 6 42 0 0 0
Wood Canyon Fire 6 26 24 1 0 0 0
Buffalo 2 Fire 15 24 24 0 0 0 0
Currant Creek Fire 3 3 3 0 0 0 0
Mt Stirling 1 Fire 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Fires awaiting measurement
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Us 95 Mm 73 Fire 0 — Smaller than one cell
Menter Canyon Fire 0 — Smaller than one cell
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 8 52,070
Offered to measurement 8 52,070
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 6 52,070
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 2 0
Every cell outside Nye County 0 0
Measured acres in Nye County 6 51,507
Measured acres outside Nye County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 51,507
Reported minus measured — 563
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Nye County 2026

Burned forest acres in Nye 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 Nye County % of burned forest % of Nye County's forestland
Public 11,629 94.2% 99.3%
Federal 11,629 94.2% 99.3%
State 0 0.0% 0.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.1%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.1%
Private 0 0.0% 0.6%
Family 0 0.0% 0.6%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 722 5.8% —
Burned forest in Nye County 12,351 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Nye County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Mouse Meadow Fire 12,293 11,571 0 0 0 0 722
Wood Canyon Fire 24 24 0 0 0 0 0
Buffalo 2 Fire 24 24 0 0 0 0 0
Silver Creek Fire 6 5 0 0 0 0 0
Currant Creek Fire 3 3 0 0 0 0 0
Mt Stirling 1 Fire 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 55,537 12,351
Land cover Forest cells 55,537 12,351
Equal 55,537

Search Fires

🔥 Currant Creek Fire 2026
Started: Aug 29 3 acre
Near Ely · Nye County, Nevada
🔥 Buffalo 2 Fire 2026
Started: Aug 24 15 acre
Nye County, Nevada
🔥 Menter Canyon Fire 2026
Started: Aug 21 0 acre
Nye County, Nevada
🔥 Wood Canyon Fire 2026
Started: Aug 9 6 acre
Near Pahrump · Nye County, Nevada
🔥 Mouse Meadow Fire 2026
Started: Jul 24 52,000 acre 100% contained
Near Beatty · Nye County, Nevada
🔥 Mt Stirling 1 Fire 2026
Started: Jun 24 0 acre
Near Pahrump · Nye County, Nevada
🔥 Silver Creek Fire 2026
Started: May 11 46 acre
Near Tonopah · Nye County, Nevada
🔥 Us 95 Mm 73 Fire 2026
Started: May 11 0 acre
Near Beatty · Nye County, Nevada