Started on Aug 24, 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
- 3 miles north of VYA, NV
- People working on it
- 229 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- How it's behaving
- Minimal, Short-range SpottingCreeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.
- 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 timber with grass and understory in Washoe County, the active S-1 Vya Fire near Vya, Nevada, has been on the landscape for 14 days since starting on August 24, 2026, averaging approximately 692 acres of growth per day to reach a total of 9,692 acres. Current fire behavior is minimal, creeping, and showing short-range spotting, allowing response efforts with 229 personnel under a Type 4 Incident management team and Type 4 IC to bring containment up to 98 percent.
Operations on this incident, which has accumulated $13,700,000 in costs, unfold within a typical regional fire season that runs from June to October. This local activity occurs against a broader national backdrop where 3,185,593 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 42 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Nevada for 15 days. In total it burned about 9,692 acres — around 39 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 3,362,441 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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