Started on Aug 8, 2026.
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 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 nearby2 · 100 km
Quick facts
- Location
- 10 miles south of Washtucna, WA
- Cause
- Human
- People working on it
- 1 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Brush (2 feet)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.Flanking — Grows along the sides, not head-on.
- 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 for 16 days across private brush land in Franklin County, the Nunamaker Road Fire near Connell, Washington, has consumed 20,870 acres at an approximate average daily growth rate of 1,304 acres per day. Satellites are picking up 3 heat detections in the past 48 hours near the 10 Miles S from Washtucna, WA location, while the active fire behavior on the ground is currently characterized as minimal, smoldering, and flanking in 2-foot brush.
The human-caused blaze is now 100 percent contained under the management of a Type 4 Incident Command structure utilizing a single personnel and incurring a cost of 200,000 USD for the Type 4 Incident. This incident falls within the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October.
Nationwide, the broader wildfire context shows 2,993,191 hectares burned so far in 2026, tracking 45 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Washington for 17 days. In total it burned about 20,870 acres — around 84 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 3,270,726 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 40% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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