2026 Big Horn County, Wyoming Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
3 2026 Season Fires ▲ +2 (+200%) vs same period last year
1,926 2026 Season Acres ▲ +1,926 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Big Horn County

Jun 23 Started 7 acres 5 football fields Rice Fire
Jun 10 Started 4 acres 3 football fields Luman Creek Fire
Mar 22 Started 1,915 acres 2.3x the size of Central Park Kane Fire

Largest wildfires in Big Horn County this season

1,915 Acres 2.3x the size of Central Park Kane Fire Lovell
7 Acres 5 football fields Rice Fire Washakie Ten
4 Acres 3 football fields Luman Creek Fire Washakie Ten

All 2026 Big Horn County Fires · 3 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Big Horn 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 Big Horn County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Big Horn County is listed too, at its Big Horn County acres, and is not added to the Big Horn County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Big Horn 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
Kane Fire Mar 22, 2026 100% Inactive 1,915 44.8700, -108.2147 44.8514, -108.2448
Rice Fire Jun 23, 2026 — Inactive 7 44.1711, -107.4384 44.1756, -107.5030
Luman Creek Fire Jun 10, 2026 — Inactive 4 44.2662, -107.4770 44.2381, -107.5095
Totals 2026 Season Fires 3 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 1,926

Land cover · Big Horn County 2026

Burned acres in Big Horn 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 · Big Horn County 2026

Burned forest acres in Big Horn 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 · Big Horn County 2026

Burned acres in Big Horn 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

🔥 Rice Fire 2026
Started: Jun 23 7 acre
🔥 Luman Creek Fire 2026
Started: Jun 10 4 acre
🔥 Kane Fire 2026
Started: Mar 22 1,915 acre 100% contained