Nearly Half-A-Million Acres Have Burned In Utah This Year
By Utah News Staff · August 7, 2026 · 1 min read
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Nearly half-a-million acres have burned in Utah so far this year. This includes 106,000 acres from the Widemouth Two Fire in Millard County, which is currently 19-percent contained.
Key takeaways
Nearly 500,000 acres have burned in Utah this year.
The Widemouth Two Fire in Millard County has burned 106,000 acres.
The Widemouth Two Fire is 19-percent contained.
The Widemouth Two Fire is expected to be Utah's largest fire of 2026 by the weekend.
Nearly half-a-million acres of land have burned in Utah so far this year. This total includes 106,000 acres burned by the Widemouth Two Fire in Millard County.
The Widemouth Two Fire is currently 19-percent contained and is larger than the Cottonwood Fire that burned to its south earlier this summer.
The Widemouth Two Fire is growing in Millard County. It is expected to become Utah's largest fire of 2026 by this weekend.
The Widemouth Two Fire has surpassed the size of the Cottonwood Fire, which burned earlier this summer.
