2026 Rolette County, North Dakota Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

10 2026 Season Fires ▲ +5 (+100%) vs same period last year

553 2026 Season Acres ▲ +553 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Rolette County

May 10 Started 5 acres 4 football fields Cattail 2 Fire

May 3 Started 509 acres 60% the size of Central Park 392 football fields 32nd Avenue Fire

May 3 Started 5 acres 4 football fields Henryville Fire

Apr 25 Started Puddle Fire

Apr 23 Started 5 acres 4 football fields Rocky Hill Fire

Apr 21 Started 5 acres 4 football fields Greatwalker Fire

Largest wildfires in Rolette County this season

509 Acres 60% the size of Central Park 392 football fields 32nd Avenue Fire Dunseith

12 Acres 9 football fields Sick Seven Fire Shell Valley

10 Acres 8 football fields Distance Fire Belcourt

5 Acres 4 football fields Cattail 2 Fire Shell Valley

5 Acres 4 football fields Henryville Fire Dunseith

5 Acres 4 football fields Rocky Hill Fire Dunseith

All 2026 Rolette County Fires · 10 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Rolette 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 Rolette County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Rolette County is listed too, at its Rolette County acres, and is not added to the Rolette County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Rolette 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
32nd Avenue Fire	May 3, 2026	100%	Inactive	509	48.8545, -99.9880	48.8567, -99.9850
Sick Seven Fire	Apr 20, 2026	—	Inactive	12	48.7866, -99.8450	48.7892, -99.8431
Distance Fire	Apr 14, 2026	—	Inactive	10	48.8771, -99.7305	48.8775, -99.7289
Cattail 2 Fire	May 10, 2026	—	Inactive	5	48.9126, -99.8493	48.9139, -99.8503
Henryville Fire	May 3, 2026	—	Inactive	5	48.8359, -100.0167	48.8392, -100.0292
Rocky Hill Fire	Apr 23, 2026	—	Inactive	5	48.8444, -100.0193	48.8481, -100.0197
Greatwalker Fire	Apr 21, 2026	—	Inactive	5	48.8720, -99.8945	48.8725, -99.8953
Late Fire	Apr 13, 2026	—	Inactive	2	48.8282, -99.7261	48.8283, -99.7258
Puddle Fire	Apr 25, 2026	—	Inactive	0	48.8494, -99.9257	48.8783, -99.7703
Sky High Fire	Apr 12, 2026	—	Inactive	0	48.8565, -99.8509	48.8561, -99.8508
Totals	2026 Season Fires 10	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 553

Land cover · Rolette County 2026

Burned acres in Rolette 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 Rolette County	% of burned	% of Rolette County
Forest	613	47.2%	13.3%
Range (shrubland)	1	0.1%	0.0%
Grassland	634	48.8%	32.1%
Other	50	3.9%	54.6%
Measured acres in Rolette County	1,299	—	—

Measured fires

Fire	Reported acres	Acres in Rolette County	Forest	Range (shrubland)	Grassland	Other
32nd Avenue Fire	509	508	384	0	91	33
Henryville Fire	5	506	84	1	414	8
Rocky Hill Fire	5	151	106	0	44	1
Sick Seven Fire	12	62	14	0	41	7
Distance Fire	10	30	18	0	12	0
Cattail 2 Fire	5	24	1	0	23	0
Greatwalker Fire	5	12	6	0	4	1
Late Fire	2	3	0	0	3	0
Puddle Fire	0	2	0	0	2	0
Sky High Fire	0	1	0	0	1	0

Reconciliation

Line	Fires	Acres
Counted fires	10	553
Offered to measurement	10	553
Complex roll-up residue	—	0
Fires with cells	10	553
Awaiting a perimeter	0	0
Awaiting measurement	0	0
Measurement errors	0	0
Smaller than one cell	0	0
Every cell outside Rolette County	0	0
Measured acres in Rolette County	10	1,299
Measured acres outside Rolette County	—	0
Whole perimeter acres	—	1,299
Reported minus measured	—	-746
Burned in from another county	0	0

Forest ownership · Rolette County 2026

Burned forest acres in Rolette 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 Rolette County	% of burned forest	% of Rolette County's forestland
Public	63	10.3%	12.3%
Federal	0	0.0%	1.5%
State	63	10.3%	10.8%
Local (county, city)	0	0.0%	0.0%
Tribal	20	3.2%	60.2%
Tribal	20	3.2%	60.2%
Private	273	44.6%	27.5%
Family	273	44.6%	27.5%
Corporate	0	0.0%	0.0%
TIMO/REIT	0	0.0%	0.0%
Other private	0	0.0%	0.0%
Ownership not modeled	257	42.0%	—
Burned forest in Rolette County	613	—	—

Fires by owner

Fire	Forest acres in Rolette County	State	Tribal	Private	Not modeled
32nd Avenue Fire	384	63	0	210	111
Rocky Hill Fire	106	0	0	50	56
Henryville Fire	84	0	0	13	71
Distance Fire	18	0	13	0	4
Sick Seven Fire	14	0	4	0	11
Greatwalker Fire	6	0	3	0	4
Cattail 2 Fire	1	0	0	0	1