HOPPER Fire (Idaho)
Started on Jul 24, 2026.
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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
- 75 Miles SW from BOISE, ID
- Cause
- Natural
- Personnel
- 19
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Behavior
- Active, Flanking, Backing
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
Spanning 1,500 acres across Owyhee County, the active HOPPER Fire burning 75 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho, displays active, flanking, and backing behavior in short grass fuels. Currently zero percent contained, the federal incident on Bureau of Land Management land is managed by a Type 3 Incident Commander with 19 personnel assigned.
With 17 heat detections identified by NASA satellites over the past 48 hours, the fire has accumulated an estimated cost of $100,000 since it started on July 24, 2026.
In context
This wildfire burned in Idaho for 4 days. In total it burned about 1,500 acres — around 6.1 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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