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Crooked Creek Fire (Wyoming)

Ended · 250 acres (101 hectares) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers2 days
101Hectares250Acres2Days it lasted

Started on Aug 11, 2026.

United States todayLive
101Active209Hotspots 48h1.4 MHectares
Last 7 days · steadyHow many named wildfires were burning on each of the last 7 days. It rises when there are more than on the earlier days.
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🟤 brown = already burned
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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
Fremont County
Complexity
Type 4 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
Jurisdiction
BIA · Federal land

Burning across federal jurisdiction in Fremont County, Wyoming, the active Crooked Creek Fire has expanded to 500 acres since it started on August 11, 2026. Managed by the BIA, the fire is currently situated within a region where the typical fire season runs from June to October.

Reflecting the broader national landscape—where 2,838,311 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a 48% decrease below the two-decade average—satellite monitoring of the Crooked Creek Fire over the past 48 hours has picked up four distinct heat detections in the vicinity.

In context

This wildfire burned in Wyoming for 1 day. In total it burned about 250 acres — around 1.0 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 3,216,670 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 41% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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