2026 Pennington County, South Dakota Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

17 2026 Season Fires ▲ +15 (+750%) vs same period last year

1,497 2026 Season Acres ▲ +1,497 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Pennington County

Jul 30 Started 13 acres 10 football fields Bigly Fire

Jul 29 Started 531 acres 63% the size of Central Park 408 football fields Duhamel Fire

Jul 26 Started 22 acres 17 football fields Spring Fire

Jul 15 Started 2 acres 2 football fields Flormann Fire

Jul 11 Started Everest Fire

Jul 5 Started 6 acres 5 football fields N Elk Vale Fire

Largest wildfires in Pennington County this season

531 Acres 63% the size of Central Park 408 football fields Duhamel Fire Wall

423 Acres 50% the size of Central Park 325 football fields Murphy Fire Colonial Pine Hills

385 Acres 296 football fields Coyote Flats Fire Colonial Pine Hills

68 Acres 52 football fields Silver Mountain Fire Colonial Pine Hills

24 Acres 18 football fields Daughenbaugh Fire Green Valley

22 Acres 17 football fields Spring Fire Green Valley

All 2026 Pennington County Fires · 17 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Pennington 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 Pennington County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Pennington County is listed too, at its Pennington County acres, and is not added to the Pennington County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Pennington 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
Duhamel Fire	Jul 29, 2026	90%	Inactive	531 of 531	44.4323, -102.2699	42.6831, -103.4060
Murphy Fire	Apr 23, 2026	100%	Inactive	423	43.8648, -103.2314	43.8422, -103.2039
Coyote Flats Fire	Mar 18, 2026	0%	Inactive	385	43.9489, -103.3092	43.9478, -103.3124
Silver Mountain Fire	Feb 11, 2026	—	Inactive	68	43.9472, -103.3753	43.9481, -103.3697
Daughenbaugh Fire	Mar 5, 2026	—	Inactive	24	43.8991, -103.1920	43.8977, -103.1987
Spring Fire	Jul 26, 2026	—	Inactive	22	43.9457, -103.1904	43.9632, -103.1870
Howard Ca Fire	Feb 24, 2026	—	Inactive	15	44.1061, -103.2302	44.0843, -103.2340
Bigly Fire	Jul 30, 2026	—	Inactive	13	44.0288, -103.4477	44.0267, -103.4425
N Elk Vale Fire	Jul 5, 2026	—	Inactive	6	44.1181, -103.1444	44.1167, -103.1425
87 Fire	Apr 10, 2026	—	Inactive	5	43.8594, -103.5857	43.8696, -103.5880
Victoria Lake Fire	Mar 12, 2026	—	Inactive	3	44.0066, -103.3573	11.0045, -103.3565
Flormann Fire	Jul 15, 2026	—	Inactive	2	44.0639, -103.2438	44.0628, -103.2457
Everest Fire	Jul 11, 2026	—	Inactive	0	44.1360, -103.3002	44.1358, -103.2999
St Elmo Fire	Jun 8, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.8731, -103.5822	43.8862, -103.5540
Flag Mountain Fire	May 8, 2026	—	Inactive	0	44.0457, -103.8600	44.0706, -103.8269
Marshall Fire	Apr 9, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.9481, -103.5779	43.9513, -103.5763
Cosmos Fire	Feb 2, 2026	—	Inactive	0	43.9342, -103.4265	43.9267, -103.4335
Totals	2026 Season Fires 17	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 1,497