National Interagency Fire Center
Wildfire counts and acres burned, by year and by state.
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Idaho wildfire incidents
Individual wildland fire incidents in Idaho from NIFC's WFIGS incident-tracking service, with county counts and acres burned computed by county and year.
- 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.
- Acres burned excludes incidents with no reported acreage rather than treating them as zero, so it understates the true total for a county-year with unreported fires.
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.
Measures
- Wildfires by county (count): Number of unplanned wildland fires with a point of origin in the county (or Idaho overall) in the year, computed from WFIGS incident records.
- Acres burned by county (acres): 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.
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.
- Organization
- National Interagency Fire Center
- Dataset
- Wildland fires and acres burned by state
- Geography
- States and the United States
- Time coverage
- 1983-2025 (US); 2003-2025, excluding 2008-2009 (states)
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- Original file
- https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics/wildfires
- Methodology
- https://www.nifc.gov/nicc
- License
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Our copy
- Wildland fires and acres burned by state
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.
Measures
- Wildfires (count): Number of unplanned wildland fires (wildfires) across all jurisdictions in the year, excluding prescribed fires.
- Acres burned (acres): Acres burned by unplanned wildland fires (wildfires) across all jurisdictions in the year, excluding prescribed fires.
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