Started on Jul 16, 2026.
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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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
Quick facts
- Location
- 16 miles southeast of PRINEVILLE, OR
- People working on it
- 120 people
- Complexity
- Type 1 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Brush (2 feet)
- How it's behaving
- ExtremeTorching — Whole trees flaring up like torches.
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal 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.
Expanding at a rapid pace of approximately 7,500 acres per day, the 0500 COYOTE Fire has consumed 15,000 acres of federal brush land in Crook County, Oregon, just two days after ignition. Located four miles south of Post, the blaze is currently exhibiting extreme behavior characterized by active torching, with satellite sensors detecting 46 distinct heat signatures across the fire perimeter over the last 48 hours.
A Type 4 incident management team consisting of 36 personnel is currently working to contain the fire, which remains only 1 percent contained. Managed by the BLM, the suppression efforts have incurred $100,000 in costs as crews contend with the volatile fuel conditions.
In context
This wildfire burned in Oregon for 86 days. In total it burned about 15,000 acres — around 61 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 3,388,378 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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