Started on Aug 5, 2026.
United States todayLive
Yesterday's image: fire shows in orange and red. NASA MODIS
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Quick facts
- Location
- 6 miles northeast of Foraker, OK
- People working on it
- 8 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalCreeping — 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 across Osage County, the active B.B Fire is located six miles northeast of Foraker, Oklahoma, near Pawhuska, having scorched 2,304 acres of private land featuring 2.5-foot tall grass since it started on August 5, 2026. Over the course of five days burning, the incident has maintained an approximate average daily growth of 461 acres per day, though current fire behavior is characterized as minimal and creeping, allowing response efforts to reach 95 percent containment.
Operations are currently managed by a Type 4 Incident Command structure utilizing eight personnel, with total costs reaching $35,000. Nationally, the broader wildfire context for 2026 shows 2,799,726 hectares burned so far, tracking 49 percent below the two-decade average during a regional fire season that typically spans from June to October.
In context
This wildfire burned in Oklahoma for 6 days. In total it burned about 2,304 acres — around 9.3 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 3,266,178 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 40% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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