2026 Malheur County, Oregon Wildfires

United States › Oregon › Malheur County

2 Active Fires
447,988 Acres Burning 58% the size of Rhode Island
16 2026 Season Fires ▲ +4 (+33%) vs same period last year
477,260 2026 Season Acres ▲ +435,709 (+1049%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Malheur County

Aug 25 Started 5,000 acres About the size of JFK Airport 5.9x the size of Central Park Mustang Fire
Aug 25 Started 5,444 acres About the size of JFK Airport 6.5x the size of Central Park Mitchell Springs Fire
Aug 24 Started Mm 364 Fire
Aug 16 Started Jaca Road Fire
Aug 14 Started 53 acres 41 football fields Annex Fire
Jul 25 Started 308,863 acres About the size of Los Angeles 3.1x the size of the city of Denver Coleman Creek Fire

Largest wildfires in Malheur County this season

308,863 Acres About the size of Los Angeles 3.1x the size of the city of Denver Coleman Creek Fire Vale
42,122 Acres About the size of Washington D.C. 2.9x the size of Manhattan Hat Fire
7,723 Acres 9.2x the size of Central Park 53% the size of Manhattan Cow Fire Vale
6,063 Acres 5.0x the size of Lincoln Park Slightly larger than JFK Airport Lytle Fire Vale
5,444 Acres About the size of JFK Airport 6.5x the size of Central Park Mitchell Springs Fire
5,000 Acres About the size of JFK Airport 5.9x the size of Central Park Mustang Fire

All 2026 Malheur County Fires · 16 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Malheur 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 Malheur County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Malheur County is listed too, at its Malheur County acres, and is not added to the Malheur County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Malheur 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
Coleman Creek Fire Jul 25, 2026 99% Active 211,774 of 308,863 43.6399, -118.0629 43.5588, -118.3812
Hat Fire Jul 24, 2026 100% Active 42,122 43.2405, -118.0455 43.2800, -118.1600
Cow Fire Jul 21, 2026 100% Inactive 7,723 44.3410, -117.5557 44.3617, -117.5103
Lytle Fire Jun 22, 2026 75% Inactive 6,063 43.8892, -117.1846 43.9604, -117.2104
Mitchell Springs Fire Aug 25, 2026 75% Inactive 5,444 42.1111, -117.8791 42.2064, -117.7872
Mustang Fire Aug 25, 2026 0% Inactive 5,000 42.6670, -117.4432 42.8560, -117.5209
Dry Creek Fire Jun 20, 2026 90% Inactive 3,205 42.6775, -117.6564 42.7200, -117.7140
Whiskey Fire Jul 8, 2026 20% Inactive 999 43.3508, -118.1845 43.3558, -118.1874
Brogan Canyon Fire Jul 21, 2026 100% Inactive 319 44.2850, -117.5564 44.2752, -117.6092
Clover Fire Jun 4, 2026 — Inactive 253 43.7369, -117.1313 43.7441, -117.1386
Keeney Pass Fire Jun 8, 2026 — Inactive 93 43.9138, -117.1829 43.9125, -117.1780
Bowden Fire Jul 8, 2026 — Inactive 64 42.5978, -117.8037 42.6410, -117.7915
Jordan Creek Fire Jul 8, 2026 — Inactive 56 42.9444, -117.2587 42.9516, -117.3098
Annex Fire Aug 14, 2026 — Inactive 53 44.2020, -117.0747 44.2357, -117.1362
Mm 364 Fire Aug 24, 2026 — Inactive 0 44.1627, -117.1178 44.1477, -117.1077
Jaca Road Fire Aug 16, 2026 — Inactive 0 42.9111, -117.0363 42.9048, -117.0487
Also burned into Malheur County
Big Grass Fire from Owyhee County Jul 23, 2026 94% Active 189,047 of 578,637 42.5315, -116.8768 42.6292, -117.3350
Bald Mountain Fire from Harney County Jul 23, 2026 99% Active 5,045 of 76,443 42.9895, -118.3629 43.0087, -118.4744
Totals 2026 Season Fires 16 Active Fires 2 Acres Burning 447,988 2026 Season Acres 477,260

Land cover · Malheur County 2026

Burned acres in Malheur 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 Malheur County % of burned % of Malheur County
Forest 2,737 1.0% 1.7%
Range (shrubland) 230,835 81.7% 68.1%
Grassland 45,213 16.0% 24.6%
Other 3,851 1.4% 5.6%
Burned in from another county 192,654 — —
Measured acres in Malheur County 282,636 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Malheur County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Coleman Creek Fire 308,863 214,374 (of 312,773) 2,414 187,743 21,810 2,408 0
Hat Fire 42,122 44,005 308 28,826 14,126 744 0
Cow Fire 7,723 7,723 3 4,733 2,969 18 0
Lytle Fire 6,063 6,060 0 2,828 3,082 150 0
Mitchell Springs Fire 5,444 5,383 10 4,243 624 506 0
Dry Creek Fire 3,205 3,202 0 1,436 1,764 2 0
Whiskey Fire 999 999 1 621 371 6 0
Brogan Canyon Fire 319 320 0 95 218 7 0
Clover Fire 253 254 0 149 102 3 0
Keeney Pass Fire 93 93 0 31 55 7 0
Bowden Fire 64 66 0 36 30 0 0
Jordan Creek Fire 56 57 0 57 0 0 0
Annex Fire 53 54 0 0 54 0 0
Jaca Road Fire 0 28 0 28 0 0 0
Mustang Fire 5,000 16 0 9 7 0 0
Mm 364 Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Big Grass Fire burned in from Owyhee County 578,637 187,607 (of 575,157) 2,732 132,562 49,925 2,387 0
Bald Mountain Fire burned in from Harney County 76,443 5,047 (of 76,450) 0 4,676 370 1 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 16 380,257
Offered to measurement 16 380,257
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 16 380,257
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Malheur County 0 0
Measured acres in Malheur County 16 282,636
Measured acres outside Malheur County — 98,399
Whole perimeter acres — 381,035
Reported minus measured — -778
Burned in from another county 2 192,654

Forest ownership · Malheur County 2026

Burned forest acres in Malheur 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 Malheur County % of burned forest % of Malheur County's forestland
Public 656 24.0% 59.5%
Federal 611 22.3% 57.4%
State 45 1.6% 2.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.3%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.3%
Private 384 14.0% 40.2%
Family 383 14.0% 30.1%
Corporate 1 0.0% 9.2%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.9%
Ownership not modeled 1,697 62.0% —
Burned in from another county 2,732 — —
Burned forest in Malheur County 2,737 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Malheur County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Coleman Creek Fire 2,414 580 3 0 0 336 1,494
Hat Fire 308 26 42 0 0 47 193
Mitchell Springs Fire 10 4 0 0 0 0 6
Cow Fire 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
Whiskey Fire 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Lytle Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Big Grass Fire burned in from Owyhee County 2,732 75 40 0 0 78 2,540

11 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 12,305 2,737
Land cover Forest cells 12,305 2,737
Equal 12,305

Search Fires

🔥 Coleman Creek Fire Active 2026
Started: Jul 25 308,863 acre 99% contained
Near Vale · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Hat Fire Active 2026
Started: Jul 24 42,122 acre 100% contained
Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Mustang Fire 2026
Started: Aug 25 5,000 acre 0% contained
Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Mitchell Springs Fire 2026
Started: Aug 25 5,444 acre 75% contained
Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Mm 364 Fire 2026
Started: Aug 24 0 acre
Near Weiser, Idaho · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Jaca Road Fire 2026
Started: Aug 16 0 acre
Near Murphy, Idaho · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Annex Fire 2026
Started: Aug 14 53 acre
Near Weiser, Idaho · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Cow Fire 2026
Started: Jul 21 7,723 acre 100% contained
Near Vale · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Brogan Canyon Fire 2026
Started: Jul 21 319 acre 100% contained
Near Vale · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Whiskey Fire 2026
Started: Jul 8 999 acre 20% contained
Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Bowden Fire 2026
Started: Jul 8 64 acre
Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Jordan Creek Fire 2026
Started: Jul 8 56 acre
Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Lytle Fire 2026
Started: Jun 22 6,063 acre 75% contained
Near Vale · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Dry Creek Fire 2026
Started: Jun 20 3,205 acre 90% contained
Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Keeney Pass Fire 2026
Started: Jun 8 93 acre
Near Vale · Malheur County, Oregon
🔥 Clover Fire 2026
Started: Jun 4 253 acre
Near Parma, Idaho · Malheur County, Oregon