Started on Aug 7, 2026.
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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
Quick facts
- Location
- 12 miles northeast of MOUNTAIN HOME, ID
- Cause
- Human
- People working on it
- 252 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalCreeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.Isolated Torching — Single scattered trees flaring up whole, like torches.
- Jurisdiction
- Private 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.
Burning across private land in Elmore County, Idaho, the active Mm115 Hwy 20 Fire located 12 miles northeast of Mountain Home has consumed 5,139 acres since it started on August 7, 2026. Over its six days of burning, the incident has maintained an average daily growth of approximately 857 acres per day. Fire activity has now shifted to minimal, creeping, and isolated torching through one-foot short grass fuels. A total of 252 personnel are assigned to the Type 3 Incident, operating under a Type 3 IC management structure to achieve the current 90 percent containment, with suppression costs reaching $4,500,000.
The human-caused fire is unfolding against the backdrop of the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. On a national scale, the broader context shows that 2,866,952 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 48 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Idaho for 6 days. In total it burned about 5,139 acres — around 21 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 3,266,178 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 40% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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