Started on Jul 26, 2026.
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🟢 green = vegetation
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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 nearby1 · 100 km
Quick facts
- Location
- 2 miles south of White Swan, WA
- People working on it
- 17 people
- Complexity
- Type 3 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
- MinimalSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- Jurisdiction
- BIA · Federal 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 federal land in Yakima County, Washington, the Ransier Fire near White Swan has consumed 1,302 acres over an 18-day trajectory, averaging an approximate daily growth of 72 acres. Despite this spread, firefighting efforts have achieved 92 percent containment on the active incident, with current fire behavior observed as minimal and smoldering through short grass fuels about one foot tall.
A Type 3 incident managed by a Type 5 Incident Commander, the response involves 17 personnel coordinated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with total suppression costs reaching $500,000. The broader 2026 wildfire season in the country—which typically runs from June to October—has seen 2,893,377 hectares burn so far, marking a level 47 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Washington for 23 days. In total it burned about 1,302 acres — around 5.3 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 3,226,886 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 41% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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