2026 McLean County, North Dakota Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
3 2026 Season Fires ▲ +3 vs same period last year
40 2026 Season Acres ▲ +40 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in McLean County

May 7 Started 40 acres 31 football fields Wood House Fire
May 1 Started Flax Fire
Feb 25 Started Arikara Fire

Largest wildfires in McLean County this season

40 Acres 31 football fields Wood House Fire Parshall

All 2026 McLean County Fires · 3 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in McLean 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 McLean County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into McLean County is listed too, at its McLean County acres, and is not added to the McLean County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so McLean 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
Wood House Fire May 7, 2026 Inactive 40 47.7355, -101.9394 47.7359, -101.9404
Flax Fire May 1, 2026 Inactive 0 47.8323, -101.9535 47.8319, -101.9564
Arikara Fire Feb 25, 2026 Inactive 0 47.6642, -101.8440 47.6642, -101.8442
Totals 2026 Season Fires 3 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 40

Land cover · McLean County 2026

Burned acres in McLean 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 McLean County % of burned % of McLean County
Forest 0 0.0% 1.1%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.2%
Grassland 7 12.6% 34.2%
Other 46 87.4% 64.5%
Measured acres in McLean County 53
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in McLean County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Wood House Fire 40 48 0 0 7 41 0
Flax Fire 0 5 0 0 0 5 0
Fires awaiting measurement
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Arikara Fire 0 Smaller than one cell
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 3 40
Offered to measurement 3 40
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 2 40
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 1 0
Every cell outside McLean County 0 0
Measured acres in McLean County 2 53
Measured acres outside McLean County 0
Whole perimeter acres 53
Reported minus measured -13
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · McLean County 2026

Burned forest acres in McLean 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 McLean County % of burned forest % of McLean County's forestland
Public 0 10.6%
Federal 0 1.1%
State 0 9.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0%
Tribal 0 24.8%
Tribal 0 24.8%
Private 0 64.5%
Family 0 64.5%
Corporate 0 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 0
Burned forest in McLean County 0
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in McLean County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled

2 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 0 0
Land cover Forest cells 0 0
Equal 0

Search Fires

🔥 Wood House Fire 2026
Started: May 7 40 acre
🔥 Flax Fire 2026
Started: May 1 0 acre
🔥 Arikara Fire 2026
Started: Feb 25 0 acre