2026 Box Elder County, Utah Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
5 2026 Season Fires ▼ -1 (-17%) vs same period last year
17,557 2026 Season Acres ▲ +16,803 (+2229%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Box Elder County

Aug 27 Started 10,002 acres 1.9x the size of JFK Airport 11.9x the size of Central Park Brushy Canyon Fire
Aug 21 Started 585 acres 450 football fields 69% the size of Central Park Salt Wells Fire
Aug 1 Started 6,889 acres 8.2x the size of Central Park Slightly larger than JFK Airport Johnson Canyon Fire
Jul 19 Started 81 acres 62 football fields Rocky Pass Fire
Jun 20 Started George Peak Fire

Largest wildfires in Box Elder County this season

10,002 Acres 1.9x the size of JFK Airport 11.9x the size of Central Park Brushy Canyon Fire Plain City
6,889 Acres 8.2x the size of Central Park Slightly larger than JFK Airport Johnson Canyon Fire Riverside
585 Acres 450 football fields 69% the size of Central Park Salt Wells Fire Thatcher
81 Acres 62 football fields Rocky Pass Fire

All 2026 Box Elder County Fires · 5 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Box Elder 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 Box Elder County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Box Elder County is listed too, at its Box Elder County acres, and is not added to the Box Elder County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Box Elder 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
Brushy Canyon Fire Aug 27, 2026 100% Inactive 10,002 41.3141, -112.4639 41.2775, -112.4725
Johnson Canyon Fire Aug 1, 2026 100% Inactive 6,889 41.8942, -112.2861 41.8748, -112.3043
Salt Wells Fire Aug 21, 2026 100% Inactive 585 41.8018, -112.6737 41.8095, -112.6778
Rocky Pass Fire Jul 19, 2026 — Inactive 81 41.5080, -113.7723 41.4347, -113.7772
George Peak Fire Jun 20, 2026 — Inactive 0 41.9027, -113.4690 41.8977, -113.4840
Totals 2026 Season Fires 5 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 17,557

Land cover · Box Elder County 2026

Burned acres in Box Elder 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.

Forest ownership · Box Elder County 2026

Burned forest acres in Box Elder 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.

Burn severity · Box Elder County 2026

Burned acres in Box Elder County for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.

This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.

Search Fires

🔥 Brushy Canyon Fire 2026
Started: Aug 27 10,002 acre 100% contained
🔥 Salt Wells Fire 2026
Started: Aug 21 585 acre 100% contained
🔥 Johnson Canyon Fire 2026
Started: Aug 1 6,889 acre 100% contained
🔥 Rocky Pass Fire 2026
Started: Jul 19 81 acre
🔥 George Peak Fire 2026
Started: Jun 20 0 acre