Started on Jul 10, 2026.
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🟢 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
- 14 miles northeast of Rogue River, OR
- People working on it
- 12 people
- Complexity
- Type 1 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Closed Timber Litter
- How it's behaving
- MinimalSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- Jurisdiction
- Private 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 across 15,580 acres of private land in Jackson County, Oregon, the E Evans Creek Rd 18000 Fire has now reached full containment after 45 days of burning. Located 14 miles northeast of Rogue River near Shady Cove, the fire maintained an average daily growth of approximately 346 acres per day over the course of its run. Current fire behavior is minimal and smoldering within closed timber litter fuels.
Operations to secure the perimeter involved 12 personnel under the management of a Type 5 Incident Commander, alongside a Type 1 Incident designation. The total cost to suppress the incident reached $71,500,000. These local suppression efforts unfolded during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October.
Nationwide, the broader wildfire landscape reveals that 2,993,191 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 45% below the country's two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Oregon for 57 days. In total it burned about 15,580 acres — around 63 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 3,362,441 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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