Started on Aug 9, 2026.
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 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
- 9 miles north of Lemmon Valley, NV
- Cause
- Human
- Complexity
- Type 3 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Brush (2 feet)
- How it's behaving
- Extreme, Short-range SpottingFlanking — Grows along the sides, not head-on.
- 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 near Lemmon Valley in Washoe County, Nevada, the Fred Mt Fire has reached 100 percent containment after burning 3,482 acres of private land. Human-caused and managed under a Type 3 Incident command structure, the fire was fueled by two-foot brush and driven by extreme behavior, flanking, and short-range spotting. Over its three-day active burn period, the fire expanded at an average rate of approximately 1,161 acres per day. Satellites detected 122 heat signatures in the area over a 48-hour period, reflecting the spatial spread across the landscape before crews successfully halted its advance at a total cost of $600,000.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which spans from June to October. Nationally, the broader wildfire landscape shows 2,838,311 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 48 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Nevada for 33 days. In total it burned about 3,482 acres — around 14 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 3,274,905 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 40% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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