Picture Rock Fire (OR)
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Fire (SWIR)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 3 Miles N from Summer Lake, OR
- Personnel
- 117
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Extreme, Torching, Spotting
- Jurisdiction
- State land
Burning through tall grass measuring 2.5 feet in Lake County, Oregon, the active Picture Rock Fire is located three miles north of Summer Lake. The incident is currently managed by a Type 4 Incident Commander with 117 personnel assigned to the Type 3 Incident. Exhibiting extreme fire behavior with torching and spotting, the blaze has grown to 1,625 acres since it started on August 16, 2026, and remains zero percent contained.
Satellites have detected five heat signatures near the fire perimeter over the past 48 hours, illustrating the extent of the spread across state-owned land. The firefighting response has accumulated a cost of $200,000 so far.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Nationally, the wildfire activity occurs against a broader backdrop of 2,921,034 hectares burned across the country so far in 2026, a figure that remains 47 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Oregon for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 1,625 acres — about 6.6 km². Crews report no containment yet, so the fire can still spread.
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 2,921,034 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 47% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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