Brown Ditch Fire (Louisiana)
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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
- 10 Miles S from Hackberry, LA
- Cause
- Human
- Personnel
- 11
- Complexity
- Type 4 Incident
- Fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Torching, Backing
- Jurisdiction
- USFWS · Federal land
Burning for just two days, the active Brown Ditch Fire has expanded to 1,300 acres with an approximate average daily growth of 650 acres per day in Cameron County, Louisiana. Located 10 miles south of Hackberry, the human-caused fire is currently exhibiting minimal, torching, and backing fire behavior through short grass fuels on federal land managed by the USFWS.
Satellites have detected 28 heat signatures clustered nearby over the past 48 hours, illustrating the extent of the spread. Suppression efforts by 11 personnel under a Type 4 Incident management team have achieved 50 percent containment of the blaze, with operations totaling $10,000 in costs.
In context
This wildfire burned in Louisiana for 6 days. In total it burned about 1,300 acres — around 5.3 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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