Started on Aug 27, 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
Active fires nearby2 · 100 km
Quick facts
- Location
- 20 miles south of Dillon, MT
- 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.Running — Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.Flanking — Grows along the sides, not head-on.
- Jurisdiction
- DNRC · State 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 four days through two-foot brush in Beaverhead County, the Roe 2 Fire has scorched 978 acres at an average daily growth of approximately 245 acres per day. Located 20 miles south of Dillon, Montana, the state-managed wildfire has reached 100 percent containment under the direction of a Type 5 Incident Commander and a single personnel from the DNRC.
Fire behavior on the Type 4 incident has been observed as minimal, smoldering, running, and flanking. The firefighting effort has accumulated a total cost of $200,000.
This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Nationally, 3,150,304 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 43% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Montana for 18 days. So far it has affected roughly 978 acres — about 4.0 km². The perimeter is 100% contained.
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 3,216,670 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 41% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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