Started on Jul 16, 2026.
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Active fires nearby1 · 100 km
Quick facts
- Location
- 5 miles south of PAULINA GUARD STATION, OR
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 7 people
- Complexity
- Type 1 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.Backing — Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
- Jurisdiction
- Private land
Glossary: what each term means
Barely moving. Low, thin smoke.
Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
Moves slowly, hugging the ground.
Spreads with low, steady flames.
Spreading evenly and steadily, with visible flame.
Fast and unpredictable.
Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.
Grows along the sides, not head-on.
Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
Climbs into the treetops and jumps crown to crown. It can't be attacked from the ground.
Climbs into the crowns in bursts and drops back down.
Whole trees flaring up like torches.
Single scattered trees flaring up whole, like torches.
Whole clumps of trees flaring at once.
Wind carries embers through the air and starts new fires ahead of the front: that is how a fire jumps a road or a firebreak.
The wind pushes it in long runs in one direction.
The ones marked ● are the behaviors that make a fire harder to stop. They are not a warning or an instruction: they are the description written by the agency in charge. For decisions, always follow your emergency services.
Burning across 29,844 acres of private land in Crook County, Oregon, five miles south of the Paulina Guard Station, the natural-caused Henry Fire has maintained a steady trajectory over its sixty days of activity, averaging approximately 497 acres of growth per day. Despite this prolonged campaign, current fire behavior on the incident is characterized as minimal, smoldering, and backing through short grass measuring about one foot tall.
A Complex Incident Management Team is currently overseeing operations on the Type 1 Incident, directing 18 personnel who have pushed containment to 99 percent while accumulating total costs of $1,921,797. The regional backdrop for this incident aligns with the typical Oregon fire season spanning from June to October, unfolding during a broader national landscape where 3,216,670 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure 41% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Oregon for 76 days. In total it burned about 29,844 acres — around 121 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in United States
Across United States, roughly 3,379,469 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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