B.B Fire (Oklahoma)
Satellite image: NASA MODIS (infrared — active fire in orange/red, from yesterday).
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 6 Miles NE from Foraker, OK
- Personnel
- 8
- Complexity
- Type 4 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Creeping
- Jurisdiction
- Private land
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 3,185,593 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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