Plum Creek Fire
The Plum Creek Fire was reported on April 21, 2025 in Brown County, Nebraska and burned 7,075 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 7,075 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 21, 2025
- Personnel
- 100
Map
Perimeter mapped April 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM CDT, 6,651 acres (ir image interpretation). Point of origin 42.600, -100.149.
The incident
- Size
- 7,075 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM CDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- Brown County, 5 miles NE of Johnstown, NE
- County
- Brown County
- State
- Nebraska
- Nearest city reported
- Johnstown
- Protecting agency
- SFS
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 100
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 5 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $870,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-NENES-250344
- IRWIN identifier
- 75B911F5-FEFB-420E-961E-2B7D43F80D7F
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Ainsworth, NE covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated June 26, 2026 at 11:03 AM CDT. Identifier 2025-NENES-250344.