2026 Pershing County, Nevada Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▼ -1 (-50%) vs same period last year
2,461 2026 Season Acres ▼ -15,123 (-86%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Pershing County

May 23 Started 2,448 acres 2.0x the size of Lincoln Park Quartz Fire

Largest wildfires in Pershing County this season

2,448 Acres 2.0x the size of Lincoln Park Quartz Fire Winnemucca

All 2026 Pershing County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Pershing 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 Pershing County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Pershing County is listed too, at its Pershing County acres, and is not added to the Pershing County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Pershing 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
Quartz Fire May 23, 2026 90% Inactive 2,448 40.7342, -117.9680 40.7102, -118.0045
Also burned into Pershing County
Cedar Fire from Lander County Aug 25, 2026 — Inactive 13 of 34 40.1399, -117.4769 40.1538, -117.4630
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 2,461

Land cover · Pershing County 2026

Burned acres in Pershing 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 Pershing County % of burned % of Pershing County
Forest 81 3.3% 2.7%
Range (shrubland) 532 21.7% 72.9%
Grassland 1,828 74.6% 14.6%
Other 10 0.4% 9.7%
Burned in from another county 12 — —
Measured acres in Pershing County 2,451 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Pershing County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Quartz Fire 2,448 2,451 81 532 1,828 10 0
Cedar Fire burned in from Lander County 34 12 (of 34) 0 8 4 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 2,448
Offered to measurement 1 2,448
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 2,448
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Pershing County 0 0
Measured acres in Pershing County 1 2,451
Measured acres outside Pershing County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 2,451
Reported minus measured — -3
Burned in from another county 1 12

Forest ownership · Pershing County 2026

Burned forest acres in Pershing 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 Pershing County % of burned forest % of Pershing County's forestland
Public 29 35.6% 78.8%
Federal 29 35.6% 78.8%
State 0 0.0% 0.1%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 11 13.4% 21.2%
Family 11 13.4% 21.2%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 41 51.0% —
Burned forest in Pershing County 81 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Pershing County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Quartz Fire 81 29 0 0 0 11 41

1 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 365 81
Land cover Forest cells 365 81
Equal 365

Search Fires

🔥 Quartz Fire 2026
Started: May 23 2,448 acre 90% contained
Near Winnemucca · Pershing County, Nevada