2025 Botetourt County, Virginia Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2025 Season Fires
1,176 2025 Season Acres

Newest wildfires in Botetourt County

Nov 5 Started 180 acres 138 football fields Lignite Fire

Largest wildfires in Botetourt County this season

180 Acres 138 football fields Lignite Fire Covington

All 2025 Botetourt County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Botetourt 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 Botetourt County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Botetourt County is listed too, at its Botetourt County acres, and is not added to the Botetourt County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Botetourt 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
Lignite Fire Nov 5, 2025 100% Inactive 180 37.6395, -80.0099 37.6166, -79.9864
Also burned into Botetourt County
Bald Mountain Fire from Craig County Nov 5, 2025 85% Inactive 996 of 4,374 37.6141, -80.0358 37.6316, -80.0305
Totals 2025 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 1,176

Land cover · Botetourt County 2025

Burned acres in Botetourt County for the 2025 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 Botetourt County % of burned % of Botetourt County
Forest 179 99.8% 76.4%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Grassland 0 0.2% 16.2%
Other 0 0.0% 7.4%
Burned in from another county 997
Measured acres in Botetourt County 179
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Botetourt County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Lignite Fire 180 179 179 0 0 0 0
Bald Mountain Fire burned in from Craig County 4,374 997 (of 4,378) 969 0 22 6 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 180
Offered to measurement 1 180
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 180
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Botetourt County 0 0
Measured acres in Botetourt County 1 179
Measured acres outside Botetourt County 0
Whole perimeter acres 179
Reported minus measured 1
Burned in from another county 1 997

Forest ownership · Botetourt County 2025

Burned forest acres in Botetourt County for the 2025 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 Botetourt County % of burned forest % of Botetourt County's forestland
Public 174 97.5% 39.7%
Federal 174 97.5% 32.0%
State 0 0.0% 0.2%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 7.5%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 60.3%
Family 0 0.0% 45.7%
Corporate 0 0.0% 14.2%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.4%
Ownership not modeled 4 2.5%
Burned in from another county 969
Burned forest in Botetourt County 179
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Botetourt County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Lignite Fire 179 174 0 0 0 0 4
Bald Mountain Fire burned in from Craig County 969 904 0 0 0 65 1

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 804 179
Land cover Forest cells 804 179
Equal 804

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🔥 Lignite Fire 2025
Started: Nov 5 180 acre 100% contained