0500 COYOTE Fire (Oregon)
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Fire (SWIR)
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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
- 4 Miles S from POST, OR
- Personnel
- 8
- Complexity
- Type 4 Incident
- Fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Behavior
- Extreme, Torching
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
Expanding at a rate of approximately 1,000 acres per day, the 0500 COYOTE Fire has consumed 2,000 acres of federal land in Crook County, Oregon, over the past 48 hours. Located four miles south of Post, the blaze is currently exhibiting extreme behavior characterized by torching in two-foot brush, with satellite sensors detecting 32 distinct heat signatures across the fire area.
As a Type 4 incident managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the active fire remains at zero percent containment. Eight personnel are currently assigned to the blaze, which has incurred estimated suppression costs of $100,000 since it ignited on July 16, 2026.
In context
This wildfire burned in Oregon for 47 days. In total it burned about 2,000 acres — around 8.1 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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