2026 Rhode Island Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year

11 2026 Season Acres ▲ +11 vs same period last year

Largest wildfires in Rhode Island this season

11 Acres 8 football fields Rx Great Swamp 4-9-26 Fire South Kingstown

All 2026 Rhode Island Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Rhode Island. 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 the border is listed with the acres that burned in Rhode Island, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Rhode Island is listed too, at its Rhode Island acres, and is not added to the Rhode Island fire counts.

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Fire	County	Start date	Containment	Status	Acres	Center	Ignition point
Rx Great Swamp 4-9-26 Fire	Washington	Apr 9, 2026	—	Inactive	11	41.4517, -71.5926	—
Totals		2026 Season Fires 1	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 11

Land cover · Rhode Island 2026

Burned acres in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island	% of burned	% of Rhode Island
Forest	11	100.0%	61.0%
Range (shrubland)	0	0.0%	0.4%
Grassland	0	0.0%	6.3%
Other	0	0.0%	32.4%
Measured acres in Rhode Island	11	—	—

Measured fires

Fire	Reported acres	Acres in Rhode Island	Forest	Range (shrubland)	Grassland	Other	Unclassified
Rx Great Swamp 4-9-26 Fire	11	11	11	0	0	0	0

Reconciliation

Line	Fires	Acres
Counted fires	1	11
Offered to measurement	1	11
Complex roll-up residue	—	0
Fires with cells	1	11
Awaiting a perimeter	0	0
Awaiting measurement	0	0
Measurement errors	0	0
Smaller than one cell	0	0
Every cell outside Rhode Island	0	0
Measured acres in Rhode Island	1	11
Measured acres outside Rhode Island	—	0
Whole perimeter acres	—	11
Reported minus measured	—	0
Burned in from another state or province	0	0

Forest ownership · Rhode Island 2026

Burned forest acres in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island	% of burned forest	% of Rhode Island's forestland
Public	1	11.8%	32.8%
Federal	0	0.0%	0.1%
State	1	11.8%	23.9%
Local (county, city)	0	0.0%	8.9%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Private	0	0.0%	67.2%
Family	0	0.0%	40.6%
Corporate	0	0.0%	14.0%
TIMO/REIT	0	0.0%	0.0%
Other private	0	0.0%	12.6%
Ownership not modeled	10	88.2%	—
Burned forest in Rhode Island	11	—	—