2026 Cape May County, New Jersey Wildfires
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Largest wildfires in Cape May County this season
All 2026 Cape May County Fires · 1 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Cape May 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 Cape May County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Cape May County is listed too, at its Cape May County acres, and is not added to the Cape May County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Cape May County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.
| Fire | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Fire | Mar 31, 2026 | — | Inactive | 20 | 39.0530, -74.8670 | — |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 1 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2026 Season Acres 20 |
Land cover · Cape May County 2026
Burned acres in Cape May 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.
| Acres by cover type | Acres in Cape May County | % of burned | % of Cape May County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest | 0 | — | 41.7% |
| Range (shrubland) | 0 | — | 0.7% |
| Grassland | 0 | — | 24.4% |
| Other | 0 | — | 33.3% |
| Measured acres in Cape May County | 0 | — | — |
Measured fires
| Fire | Reported acres | Acres in Cape May County | Forest | Range (shrubland) | Grassland | Other | Unclassified |
|---|
Fires awaiting measurement
| Fire | Reported acres | Whole perimeter acres | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Fire | 20 | — | Awaiting a perimeter |
Reconciliation
| Line | Fires | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Counted fires | 1 | 20 |
| Offered to measurement | 1 | 20 |
| Complex roll-up residue | — | 0 |
| Fires with cells | 0 | 0 |
| Awaiting a perimeter | 1 | 20 |
| Awaiting measurement | 0 | 0 |
| Measurement errors | 0 | 0 |
| Smaller than one cell | 0 | 0 |
| Every cell outside Cape May County | 0 | 0 |
| Measured acres in Cape May County | 0 | 0 |
| Measured acres outside Cape May County | — | 0 |
| Whole perimeter acres | — | 0 |
| Reported minus measured | — | 0 |
| Burned in from another county | 0 | 0 |
Forest ownership · Cape May County 2026
Burned forest acres in Cape May 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 Cape May County | % of burned forest | % of Cape May County's forestland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public | 0 | — | 61.1% |
| Federal | 0 | — | 25.9% |
| State | 0 | — | 35.2% |
| Local (county, city) | 0 | — | 0.0% |
| Tribal | 0 | — | 0.0% |
| Tribal | 0 | — | 0.0% |
| Private | 0 | — | 38.9% |
| Family | 0 | — | 37.9% |
| Corporate | 0 | — | 0.9% |
| TIMO/REIT | 0 | — | 0.0% |
| Other private | 0 | — | 0.0% |
| Ownership not modeled | 0 | — | — |
| Burned forest in Cape May County | 0 | — | — |
Fires by owner
| Fire | Forest acres in Cape May County | Federal | State | Local | Tribal | Private | Not modeled |
|---|
0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.
Reconciliation
| Owner cells | 0 | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Land cover Forest cells | 0 | 0 |
| Equal | 0 | |
Burn severity · Cape May County 2026
Burned acres in Cape May 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.
This tab fills in once a Cape May County fire from the 2026 season has been assessed. Assessments arrive within a few days of a perimeter, once the satellite has flown over and the sky is clear.