Idaho wildfires by county
1,519
Wildfires with a point of origin in Idaho counties, 2025
+4.9% since 2024 (1,448); +58.2% since 2020 (960); +14.9% since 2015 (1,322)
Source: National Interagency Fire Center, WFIGS Incident Locations. Data period 2025. Published .
Number of unplanned wildland fires with a point of origin in the county (or Idaho overall) in the year, computed from WFIGS incident records.
Change and comparison
From 2014 (990) to 2025 (1,519), the change was +53.4%.
The series high is 1,600 in 2017 and the low is 709 in 2016.
Among 44 Idaho counties in 2025, Ada County was highest at 391 and Teton County lowest at 0.
Historical data
Source: National Interagency Fire Center, WFIGS Incident Locations. Published .
Data table (12 rows)
| Period | Idaho (count) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 990 |
| 2015 | 1,322 |
| 2016 | 709 |
| 2017 | 1,600 |
| 2018 | 1,134 |
| 2019 | 971 |
| 2020 | 960 |
| 2021 | 1,314 |
| 2022 | 1,128 |
| 2023 | 903 |
| 2024 | 1,448 |
| 2025 | 1,519 |
By county
Count
Source: National Interagency Fire Center, WFIGS Incident Locations. Data period 2025. Published .
- 0 to 3
- 4 to 8
- 9 to 23
- 24 to 38
- 39 to 391
Source: National Interagency Fire Center, WFIGS Incident Locations. Data period 2025. Published .
Data table (44 rows)
Acres burned by county
182,872 acres in 2025. Acres burned by unplanned wildland fires with a point of origin in the county (or Idaho overall) in the year, computed from WFIGS incident records that report an acreage.
Source: National Interagency Fire Center, WFIGS Incident Locations. Published .
Data table (12 rows)
| Period | Acres burned by county (acres) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 223,142.59 |
| 2015 | 1,154,988.16 |
| 2016 | 369,486.29 |
| 2017 | 693,593.13 |
| 2018 | 589,514.73 |
| 2019 | 284,661.21 |
| 2020 | 321,119.00 |
| 2021 | 441,815.99 |
| 2022 | 436,716.39 |
| 2023 | 100,162.18 |
| 2024 | 1,051,196.85 |
| 2025 | 182,871.99 |
Source
- Organization
- National Interagency Fire Center
- Dataset
- WFIGS Incident Locations
- Geography
- Counties and Idaho
- Time coverage
- 2008-2026 (records); 2014-2025 (county and state counts and acres)
- Update frequency
- Continuous
- Published
- Original file
- https://services3.arcgis.com/T4QMspbfLg3qTGWY/arcgis/rest/services/WFIGS_Incident_Locations/FeatureServer/0
- Methodology
- https://wfigs-nifc.hub.arcgis.com/pages/wfigs-public-data
- License
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Our copy
- WFIGS Incident Locations
Caveats
- "Fire" here means an unplanned wildfire (WFIGS's own "WF" incident type); prescribed burns and administrative fire complexes are excluded.
- WFIGS/IRWIN had negligible Idaho coverage before 2014, so the county and state counts and acres cover 2014-2025 only; the underlying incident records go back to 2008 but are too sparse before 2014 to sum.
- The county and state counts and acres burned are computed by this site from the individual incident records; the National Interagency Fire Center does not publish them in this form.
Where sources disagree
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2014: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,180. The two are compiled by different processes (WFIGS is a live incident-tracking system, NICC's annual report a separately compiled tally) and are not reconciled.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2015: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,324. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2016: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 630. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2017: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,598. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2018: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,132. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2019: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 960. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2020: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 944. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2021: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,332. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2022: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,088. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2023: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 892. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2024: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,450. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
- Wildfires by county, Idaho, 2025: NIFC (Wildland fires and acres burned by state) publishes 1,498. Not reconciled; see the 2014 note.
Cite
Cite this page as Understand Idaho, “Idaho wildfires by county”, https://understandidaho.com/land/wildfire-by-county/, retrieved on the date you read it, and the publisher named above for the figures themselves. The dataset behind it is described in the data catalog.
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