0500 COYOTE Fire (Oregon)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 16 Miles SE from PRINEVILLE, OR
- Personnel
- 120
- Complexity
- Type 1 Incident
- Fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Behavior
- Extreme, Torching
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
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 26 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 3,150,304 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 43% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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