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
- 5 miles south of POST, OR
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 2 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
- Minimal, Single Tree TorchingCreeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.
- 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 for 60 days across private lands five miles south of Post, Oregon, near Prineville in Crook County, the 17,460-acre Coyote Fire has expanded at an average rate of approximately 291 acres per day. The active, naturally caused blaze is currently displaying minimal, creeping, and single tree torching behavior in two-foot brush, yet has achieved 99% containment as suppression efforts continue with 48 personnel under a Complex Incident Management Team and a Type 1 Incident designation, bringing total costs to $26,138,665.
The protracted campaign against the Coyote Fire unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Across the broader national landscape, the wildfire burden stands at 3,216,670 hectares burned so far in 2026, a figure that tracks 41% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Oregon for 78 days. In total it burned about 17,460 acres — around 71 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 3,415,301 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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