Denise G

Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands

On the afternoon of March 12, 2026, a wildland fire ignited in Morrill County, Nebraska. Within 12 hours, high winds had propelled flames approximately 70 miles (110 kilometers) east-southeast across the prairie. The Morrill fire would burn over 640,000 acres (260,000 hectares) within a week, becoming the largest wildfire in the state’s history.

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https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/fires-tear-through-nebraska-grasslands/

Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands

Dry, warm, and windy conditions across the U.S. Great Plains led to extreme fire activity in March 2026.

NASA Science
Mar 31 at 9:37pmWeb
Show threadDarth Osler4d ago

@DeniseG reminds me of the Marty Robbins song, Prairie Fire

I'm curious if there has been lower than average burned area in the past years.

In the Sandhills in the 80s and 90s, there was a lot of prescribed burning, but then the land ownership profile changed