Austin Fire (OR)
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 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
- 25 Miles SE from Estacada, OR
- Cause
- Human
- Personnel
- 78
- Complexity
- Type 4 Incident
- Fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Behavior
- Extreme, Flanking, Spotting
- Jurisdiction
- USFS · Federal land
Burning across federal timber land in Clackamas County, Oregon, the human-caused Austin Fire has expanded to 710 acres since its start on August 9, 2026, averaging approximately 355 acres per day over its two days of activity. Located 25 miles southeast of Estacada, the Type 3 incident exhibits extreme, flanking, and spotting fire behavior in timber with grass and understory fuels.
Satellites have registered 16 heat detections in the past 48 hours near the incident, reflecting the active spread of the zero-percent contained blaze. A workforce of 78 personnel, managed by a Type 3 Incident Command from the USFS, is responding to the fire at a cost of $500,000.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Nationally, the wildfire landscape stands at 2,799,726 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 49 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Oregon for 2 days. So far it has affected roughly 710 acres — about 2.9 km². Crews report no containment yet, so the fire can still spread.
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 2,799,726 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 49% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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