Fullers Coulee Fire (MT)
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Fire (SWIR)
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🟢 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
- 30 Miles N from Circle, MT
- Personnel
- 24
- Complexity
- Type 4 Incident
- Fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Behavior
- Active, Spotting
- Jurisdiction
- DNRC · State land
Spanning 860 acres of short grass in McCone County, Montana, the active Fullers Coulee Fire is burning 30 miles north of Circle. Fire behavior is currently characterized as active with spotting in fuel measuring one foot in height. Satellites are picking up 11 heat detections over the past 48 hours, illustrating the recent spread of the incident.
A Type 4 Incident managed by a Type 4 IC, the fire is seeing a response from 24 personnel representing the DNRC, as containment currently sits at 0 percent. The state land fire has accumulated 100,000 dollars in costs since it started on August 6, 2026.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Nationally, the broader context shows 2,664,784 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 51 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Montana for 1 day. In total it burned about 860 acres — around 3.5 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 2,702,782 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 51% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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