2026 Albany County, Wyoming Wildfires

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1 Active Fires
5,428 Acres Burning About the size of JFK Airport
5 2026 Season Fires ▲ +5 vs same period last year
5,463 2026 Season Acres ▲ +5,463 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Albany County

Sep 7 Started 7,325 acres 6.1x the size of Lincoln Park Slightly larger than JFK Airport Moonshine Fire
Aug 27 Started 2 acres 2 football fields Binford Fire
Jul 22 Started 17 acres 13 football fields Fish Creek Fire
Jul 8 Started 712 A Fire
Jun 3 Started 16 acres 12 football fields Murphy Fire

Largest wildfires in Albany County this season

7,325 Acres 6.1x the size of Lincoln Park Slightly larger than JFK Airport Moonshine Fire Wheatland
17 Acres 13 football fields Fish Creek Fire Laramie
16 Acres 12 football fields Murphy Fire Wheatland
2 Acres 2 football fields Binford Fire Douglas

All 2026 Albany County Fires · 5 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Albany 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 Albany County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Albany County is listed too, at its Albany County acres, and is not added to the Albany County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Albany 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
Moonshine Fire Sep 7, 2026 100% Active 5,428 of 7,325 41.9698, -105.2889 41.9611, -105.2366
Fish Creek Fire Jul 22, 2026 — Inactive 17 41.0300, -105.5788 41.0404, -105.5510
Murphy Fire Jun 3, 2026 — Inactive 16 42.1962, -105.3905 42.1907, -105.4003
Binford Fire Aug 27, 2026 — Inactive 2 42.3829, -105.2988 42.3726, -105.2979
712 A Fire Jul 8, 2026 — Inactive 0 41.2745, -105.4289 41.2732, -105.4300
Totals 2026 Season Fires 5 Active Fires 1 Acres Burning 5,428 2026 Season Acres 5,463

Land cover · Albany County 2026

Burned acres in Albany 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 · Albany County 2026

Burned forest acres in Albany 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 · Albany County 2026

Burned acres in Albany 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

🔥 Moonshine Fire Active 2026
Started: Sep 7 7,325 acre 100% contained
🔥 Binford Fire 2026
Started: Aug 27 2 acre
🔥 Fish Creek Fire 2026
Started: Jul 22 17 acre
🔥 712 A Fire 2026
Started: Jul 8 0 acre
🔥 Murphy Fire 2026
Started: Jun 3 16 acre