2026 Adams County, Pennsylvania Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
72 2026 Season Acres ▲ +72 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Adams County

Apr 8 Started 72 acres 55 football fields Little Round Top/Munshower Rx Fire

Largest wildfires in Adams County this season

72 Acres 55 football fields Little Round Top/Munshower Rx Fire Gettysburg

All 2026 Adams County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Adams 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 Adams County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Adams County is listed too, at its Adams County acres, and is not added to the Adams County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Adams 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
Little Round Top/Munshower Rx Fire Apr 8, 2026 Inactive 72 39.7956, -77.2365 39.7940, -77.2376
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 72

Land cover · Adams County 2026

Burned acres in Adams 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 Adams County % of burned % of Adams County
Forest 25 34.1% 43.2%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.1%
Grassland 42 57.0% 25.9%
Other 6 8.8% 30.8%
Measured acres in Adams County 73
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Adams County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Little Round Top/Munshower Rx Fire 72 73 25 0 42 6 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 72
Offered to measurement 1 72
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 72
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Adams County 0 0
Measured acres in Adams County 1 73
Measured acres outside Adams County 0
Whole perimeter acres 73
Reported minus measured -1
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Adams County 2026

Burned forest acres in Adams 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 Adams County % of burned forest % of Adams County's forestland
Public 6 22.3% 25.4%
Federal 6 22.3% 0.9%
State 0 0.0% 24.5%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 74.6%
Family 0 0.0% 48.6%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 26.0%
Ownership not modeled 19 77.7%
Burned forest in Adams County 25
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Adams County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Little Round Top/Munshower Rx Fire 25 6 0 0 0 0 19

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 112 25
Land cover Forest cells 112 25
Equal 112

Search Fires

🔥 Little Round Top/Munshower Rx Fire 2026
Started: Apr 8 72 acre