Started on Aug 23, 2026.
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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
- 5 miles northeast of Bagdad, AZ
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 9 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Chaparral (6 feet)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalCreeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.Backing — Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
- Jurisdiction
- DFFM · State 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 through six-foot chaparral in Yavapai County, the active Campwood Fire has maintained a steady trajectory over nine days of suppression efforts, averaging an expansion of approximately 135 acres per day since it started on August 23, 2026. Located five miles northeast of Bagdad, Arizona, the state-managed fire covers 1,215 acres under a Type 4 Incident command.
Fire behavior on the natural-cause blaze is currently characterized as minimal, creeping, and backing, allowing the nine assigned personnel from the Department of Forestry and Fire Management to reach 90 percent containment while keeping total costs at $660,000. This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which spans from June to October.
Across the country, 3,150,304 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a total that is 43 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Arizona for 9 days. In total it burned about 1,215 acres — around 4.9 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 3,243,965 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 41% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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