Snyder Fire (UT)
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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
- 13 Miles W from Grand Junction, CO
- Personnel
- 10
- Complexity
- Type 1 Incident
- Fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Creeping, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
After burning for 21 days and expanding at an average rate of 1,346 acres per day, the Snyder Fire has reached full containment. Located 13 miles west of Grand Junction in Grand County, Utah, the blaze scorched a total of 28,264 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The Type 1 incident, which incurred a total cost of $7,940,392, is currently characterized by minimal activity, including creeping and smoldering in short grass fuels. A small crew of 10 personnel remains on-site under Type 5 incident management to monitor the area following the successful suppression of the fire.
In context
This wildfire burned in Utah for 38 days. In total it burned about 28,264 acres — around 114 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 3,005,648 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 45% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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