2025 West Virginia Wildfires
Newest wildfires in West Virginia
Largest wildfires in West Virginia this season
All 2025 West Virginia Fires · 3 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in West Virginia. 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 the border is listed with the acres that burned in West Virginia, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into West Virginia is listed too, at its West Virginia acres, and is not added to the West Virginia fire counts.
| Fire | County | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Fire | Fayette | Nov 28, 2025 | — | Inactive | 14 | 37.9619, -81.0784 | 37.9615, -81.0784 |
| Sideling Hill Creek Fire | Morgan | Nov 6, 2025 | — | Inactive | 5 of 5 | 39.6399, -78.3324 | — |
| Ferry Hill Fire | Jefferson | Sep 2, 2025 | — | Inactive | 0 | 39.4396, -77.7975 | — |
| Also burned into West Virginia | |||||||
| Woodside Fire from Virginia | Highland | Nov 6, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 230 of 385 | 38.5765, -79.5794 | 38.4583, -80.1082 |
| Totals | 2025 Season Fires 3 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2025 Season Acres 249 | |||
Land cover · West Virginia 2025
Burned acres in West Virginia 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.
Forest ownership · West Virginia 2025
Burned forest acres in West Virginia 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.
Burn severity · West Virginia 2025
Burned acres in West Virginia for the 2025 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.