Crooked Creek Fire (WY)
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 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
- Fremont County
- Complexity
- Type 4 Incident
- 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 has been burning in Wyoming for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 250 acres — about 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 2,838,311 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 48% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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