2026 Kittitas County, Washington Wildfires

6 Active Fires

13,573 Acres Burning About the size of Manhattan

12 2026 Season Fires ▼ -1 (-8%) vs same period last year

15,942 2026 Season Acres ▼ -1,059 (-6%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Kittitas County

Sep 1 Started Alliance Road Fire

Aug 22 Started 813 acres About the size of Central Park Goat Fire

Aug 20 Started 20 acres 15 football fields Koffman Fire

Aug 19 Started 3,217 acres 3.8x the size of Central Park 62% the size of JFK Airport King Fire

Aug 17 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Horseshoe Canyon Fire

Aug 2 Started 29 acres 22 football fields Swauk Creek Fire

Largest wildfires in Kittitas County this season

9,518 Acres 1.8x the size of JFK Airport 7.9x the size of Lincoln Park Three Queens Fire Roslyn

3,217 Acres 3.8x the size of Central Park 62% the size of JFK Airport King Fire Roslyn

813 Acres About the size of Central Park Goat Fire Roslyn

537 Acres 413 football fields 64% the size of Central Park Ryegrass Coulee Fire George

33 Acres 25 football fields Lmuma Creek Fire Kittitas

29 Acres 22 football fields Swauk Creek Fire Cle Elum

All 2026 Kittitas County Fires · 12 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Kittitas 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 Kittitas County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Kittitas County is listed too, at its Kittitas County acres, and is not added to the Kittitas County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Kittitas 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
Three Queens Fire	Jul 16, 2026	14%	Active	9,518	47.4037, -121.2075	47.4418, -121.2502
King Fire	Aug 19, 2026	0%	Active	3,217	47.4660, -121.2481	47.4792, -121.2564
Goat Fire	Aug 22, 2026	3%	Active	813	47.4617, -121.0572	47.4700, -121.0500
Ryegrass Coulee Fire	Jul 8, 2026	99%	Inactive	537	46.9461, -120.0056	46.9806, -120.2566
Lmuma Creek Fire	Jul 4, 2026	—	Inactive	33	46.8109, -120.4419	46.8846, -120.4769
Swauk Creek Fire	Aug 2, 2026	81%	Inactive	29	47.2271, -120.6922	47.2190, -120.6993
Koffman Fire	Aug 20, 2026	—	Active	20	46.9885, -120.3470	46.9609, -120.1503
Umtanum Rec Fire	Jul 5, 2026	—	Inactive	12	46.8543, -120.4763	46.8548, -120.4738
Canyon Ranch Fire	Jun 11, 2026	—	Active	3	46.9088, -120.4929	46.9044, -120.4944
Thorpe Prairie Fire	Jul 9, 2026	—	Active	2	47.1106, -120.7610	47.1201, -120.7998
Horseshoe Canyon Fire	Aug 17, 2026	—	Inactive	1	47.1374, -120.8110	47.1463, -120.8159
Alliance Road Fire	Sep 1, 2026	—	Inactive	0	47.2099, -120.9626	47.2199, -120.9950
Also burned into Kittitas County
Roza Fire from Yakima County	Jun 17, 2026	95%	Inactive	1,757 of 3,536	46.7364, -120.4136	46.7468, -120.4505
Totals	2026 Season Fires 12	Active Fires 6	Acres Burning 13,573	2026 Season Acres 15,942

Land cover · Kittitas County 2026

Burned acres in Kittitas 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 Kittitas County	% of burned	% of Kittitas County
Forest	12,264	86.3%	45.7%
Range (shrubland)	713	5.0%	26.7%
Grassland	477	3.4%	17.6%
Other	753	5.3%	10.0%
Burned in from another county	1,750	—	—
Measured acres in Kittitas County	14,207	—	—

Measured fires

Fire	Reported acres	Acres in Kittitas County	Forest	Range (shrubland)	Grassland	Other
Three Queens Fire	9,518	9,520	8,998	148	64	311
King Fire	3,217	3,218	2,684	127	315	92
Goat Fire	813	814	554	94	56	110
Ryegrass Coulee Fire	537	531	1	267	28	235
Koffman Fire	20	49	0	41	8	0
Swauk Creek Fire	29	30	24	5	0	0
Lmuma Creek Fire	33	25	0	19	3	3
Umtanum Rec Fire	12	12	2	7	0	3
Thorpe Prairie Fire	2	5	0	3	1	1
Canyon Ranch Fire	3	3	0	2	1	0
Horseshoe Canyon Fire	1	1	1	0	0	0
Alliance Road Fire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Roza Fire burned in from Yakima County	3,536	1,750 (of 3,536)	1	1,427	190	132

Reconciliation

Line	Fires	Acres
Counted fires	12	14,185
Offered to measurement	12	14,185
Complex roll-up residue	—	0
Fires with cells	12	14,185
Awaiting a perimeter	0	0
Awaiting measurement	0	0
Measurement errors	0	0
Smaller than one cell	0	0
Every cell outside Kittitas County	0	0
Measured acres in Kittitas County	12	14,207
Measured acres outside Kittitas County	—	0
Whole perimeter acres	—	14,207
Reported minus measured	—	-22
Burned in from another county	1	1,750

Forest ownership · Kittitas County 2026

Burned forest acres in Kittitas 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 Kittitas County	% of burned forest	% of Kittitas County's forestland
Public	11,660	95.1%	81.5%
Federal	11,660	95.1%	57.3%
State	0	0.0%	23.8%
Local (county, city)	0	0.0%	0.4%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Tribal	0	0.0%	0.0%
Private	1	0.0%	18.5%
Family	1	0.0%	7.8%
Corporate	0	0.0%	2.3%
TIMO/REIT	0	0.0%	2.1%
Other private	0	0.0%	6.3%
Ownership not modeled	602	4.9%	—
Burned in from another county	1	—	—
Burned forest in Kittitas County	12,264	—	—

Fires by owner

Fire	Forest acres in Kittitas County	Federal	Private	Not modeled
Three Queens Fire	8,998	8,530	0	469
King Fire	2,684	2,627	0	57
Goat Fire	554	480	0	73
Swauk Creek Fire	24	23	0	1
Umtanum Rec Fire	2	1	0	2
Ryegrass Coulee Fire	1	0	0	1
Horseshoe Canyon Fire	1	0	1	0
Roza Fire burned in from Yakima County	1	0	0	1