Started on Aug 25, 2026.
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🟤 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
Active fires nearby1 · 100 km
Quick facts
- Location
- 10 miles northeast of Winnemucca, NV
- People working on it
- 45 people
- Complexity
- Type 3 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalCreeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.Running — Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal 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.
Spreading at an approximate rate of 259 acres per day, the active Juniper Ridge Fire has now burned 778 acres over three days in Humboldt County, Nevada. Located 10 miles northeast of Winnemucca, the blaze is burning through 2.5-foot tall grass on federal land managed by the BLM, exhibiting minimal, creeping, and running fire behavior. Satellites are picking up a low heat signature, with only one NASA FIRMS heat detection recorded in the area over the past 48 hours.
A Type 3 Incident managed by a Type 3 IC, the fire has reached 75 percent containment with 45 personnel assigned to the operation. Suppression efforts have accumulated a total cost of $810,000.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. On a national scale, 3,102,331 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 43 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Nevada for 3 days. In total it burned about 778 acres — around 3.1 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 3,362,441 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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