Summit Fire (CA)
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🟤 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
- 7 Miles W from Pinon Hills, CA
- Personnel
- 7
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Chaparral (6 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Smoldering, Backing
- Jurisdiction
- Private land
Burning across private land in Los Angeles County, the SUMMIT Fire near Big Pines, California, has burned for 14 days with an average daily growth of approximately 192 acres per day, totaling 2,690 acres. Fire behavior is currently minimal, smoldering, and backing within six-foot chaparral.
The incident is now 100 percent contained after starting on July 10, 2026, with seven personnel assigned to the Type 5 incident under Type 5 IC management, bringing total costs to $12,700,000.
In context
This wildfire burned in California for 28 days. In total it burned about 2,690 acres — around 11 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 3,021,962 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 45% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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