A fire is listed here when it is located in McDowell 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 McDowell County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into McDowell County is listed too, at its McDowell County acres, and is not added to the McDowell County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so McDowell County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.
Burned acres in McDowell 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.
Burned forest acres in McDowell 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.