2026 Highland County, Virginia Wildfires
All 2026 Highland County Fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in Highland 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 Highland County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Highland County is listed too, at its Highland County acres, and is not added to the Highland County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Highland County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.
No fires are tracked in Highland County for the 2026 season. This table lists every fire the season statistics count for Highland County; for 2026 that list is empty. Statistics update with each data-update cycle, which normally runs about every 5 minutes.
Land cover · Highland County 2026
Burned acres in Highland 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.
This tab fills in once a Highland County fire from the 2026 season has a measured perimeter.
Forest ownership · Highland County 2026
Burned forest acres in Highland 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.
This tab fills in once a Highland County fire from the 2026 season burns a measured forest cell.