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Wildfires and acres burned

Annual wildfire counts and acres burned for every state (and the United States), from the National Interagency Coordination Center's state-by-state annual report tables and NIFC's own national historical statistics table.

Figures

Wildfires, 2003 to 2025Wildfires, 2003 to 2025. Idaho: 1,845 in 2003, 1,498 in 2025.05001,0001,5002,00020102020IdahoCountWildfires, 2003 to 2025Wildfires, 2003 to 2025. Idaho: 1,845 in 2003, 1,498 in 2025.05001,0001,5002,00020102020IdahoCountWildfires, 2003 to 2025Wildfires, 2003 to 2025. Idaho: 1,845 in 2003, 1,498 in 2025.05001,0001,5002,00020052010201520202025IdahoCount

Source: National Interagency Fire Center, Wildland fires and acres burned by state. Data period 2025. Published .

MeasureValuePeriod
Wildfires20251,4982025
Acres burned2025182,005 acres2025

Pages built on this dataset

Publisher

Organization
National Interagency Fire Center
Publisher’s dataset
Wildland fires and acres burned by state
File or API used
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/wildfires
Methodology
https://www.nifc.gov/nicc

Coverage

Geography
States and the United States
Time coverage
1983-2025 (US); 2003-2025, excluding 2008-2009 (states)
Update frequency
Annual
Published
2026
Retrieved
September 9, 2026
License of the records
Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
Rows
2,182 observations, 1983-2025

Measures

MeasureWhat it measuresUnit
WildfiresNumber of unplanned wildland fires (wildfires) across all jurisdictions in the year, excluding prescribed fires.count
Acres burnedAcres burned by unplanned wildland fires (wildfires) across all jurisdictions in the year, excluding prescribed fires.acres

Caveats

  • 'Fire' and 'acres burned' mean unplanned wildfire tracked by any NICC member agency, across federal, state and local jurisdiction; not federal land only.
  • Prescribed fires and, for 2003-2007, Wildland Fire Use incidents are excluded; only unplanned wildfire ignitions are counted.
  • No state has an observation for 2000-2002 or 2008-2009; those years' reports carry no usable per-state table.
  • NIFC's own U.S. total flags 2004: that year's total excludes North Carolina's state lands.
  • U.S. fire counts before 1998 are lower and more erratic (as low as 18,229 in 1983 versus roughly 47,000 to 97,000 from 1998 on); figures are carried as published.

How to cite

Understand Idaho, “Wildland fires and acres burned by state”, compiled from National Interagency Fire Center, Wildland fires and acres burned by state. Retrieved September 9, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/nifc-wildfire/.

Cite National Interagency Fire Center directly for the figures themselves.

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