Started on Jul 17, 2026.
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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.
🟢 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
- 18 miles northeast of Dietrich, ID
- Complexity
- Type 3 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
- ExtremeFlanking — Grows along the sides, not head-on.
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal 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.
Spreading across 15,000 acres of federal land 18 miles northeast of Dietrich, Idaho, the Black Ridge 2 Fire has reached full containment. The blaze, which ignited on July 17, 2026, exhibited extreme flanking behavior as it moved through 2.5-foot tall grass.
Managed as a Type 3 incident by the Bureau of Land Management, the fire incurred a total cost of $200,000. While the fire is now contained, satellite sensors from NASA FIRMS recorded two heat detections within the last 48 hours in the Lincoln County area.
In context
This wildfire burned in Idaho for 88 days. In total it burned about 15,000 acres — around 61 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 3,379,469 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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