Kaiser Canyon Fire (WA)

Active · 0% contained · 12,495 acres · started 2026-07-16 · updated 2026-07-18

True color Fire (SWIR)

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True color (left): as the eye sees it.
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).

Expanding at a rapid pace of approximately 6,248 acres per day, the Kaiser Canyon Fire has consumed 12,495 acres of federal land just two days after its natural ignition near Nespelem, Washington. Satellite data from NASA FIRMS confirms the scale of this expansion, recording 98 distinct heat detections within the last 48 hours as the blaze tears through 2.5-foot tall grass.

Currently managed as a Type 3 incident, the fire remains entirely uncontained with active, running behavior and spotting. A total of 165 personnel are deployed to combat the blaze in Okanogan County, which has already incurred $1.2 million in suppression costs.