2026 Charles Mix County, South Dakota Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
205 2026 Season Acres ▲ +205 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Charles Mix County

Apr 16 Started 205 acres 158 football fields Lake Fire

Largest wildfires in Charles Mix County this season

205 Acres 158 football fields Lake Fire Lake Andes

All 2026 Charles Mix County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Charles Mix 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 Charles Mix County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Charles Mix County is listed too, at its Charles Mix County acres, and is not added to the Charles Mix County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Charles Mix 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
Lake Fire Apr 16, 2026 Inactive 205 43.1289, -98.5288
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 205

Land cover · Charles Mix County 2026

Burned acres in Charles Mix 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 Charles Mix County % of burned % of Charles Mix County
Forest 84 40.8% 2.8%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.1% 0.1%
Grassland 115 56.0% 41.9%
Other 6 3.1% 55.2%
Measured acres in Charles Mix County 205
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Charles Mix County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Lake Fire 205 205 84 0 115 6 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 205
Offered to measurement 1 205
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 205
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Charles Mix County 0 0
Measured acres in Charles Mix County 1 205
Measured acres outside Charles Mix County 0
Whole perimeter acres 205
Reported minus measured 0
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Charles Mix County 2026

Burned forest acres in Charles Mix 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 Charles Mix County % of burned forest % of Charles Mix County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 10.2%
Federal 0 0.0% 0.2%
State 0 0.0% 10.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 40 47.5% 49.1%
Tribal 40 47.5% 49.1%
Private 0 0.0% 40.7%
Family 0 0.0% 40.7%
Corporate 0 0.0% 0.0%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 44 52.5%
Burned forest in Charles Mix County 84
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Charles Mix County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Lake Fire 84 0 0 0 40 0 44

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 377 84
Land cover Forest cells 377 84
Equal 377

Search Fires

🔥 Lake Fire 2026
Started: Apr 16 205 acre