Kearny Fire (Nevada)
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Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 37 Miles N from Ely, NV
- Cause
- Natural
- Personnel
- 28
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
Burning across federal timber litter and understory in White Pine County, Nevada, the active Kearny Fire is located 37 miles north from Ely, NV. After four days on the landscape, the incident has grown at an approximate rate of 75 acres per day, reaching 300 acres while exhibiting minimal, creeping, and smoldering fire behavior. Managing the response is a Type 4 Incident Commander directing 86 personnel under the Bureau of Land Management, achieving 30 percent containment on the natural-caused blaze.
Operations to suppress the incident have accumulated a total cost of $2,000,000. This fire occurs within the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Across the broader national landscape, 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 8 days. In total it burned about 300 acres — around 1.2 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 3,178,795 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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