Three Queens Fire (WA)
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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
- 6 Miles E from Snoqualmie Pass, WA
- Cause
- Natural
- Personnel
- 878
- Complexity
- Type 1 Incident
- Fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Behavior
- Active, Group Torching, Spotting, Uphill Runs
- Jurisdiction
- USFS · Federal land
Burning for 36 days with an average daily growth of approximately 107 acres per day, the active Three Queens Fire is located 6 miles east of Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, in Kittitas County. Managed by a Complex Incident Management Team as a Type 1 Incident with 835 personnel assigned, the fire spans 3,849 acres on federal land overseen by the USFS with 2 percent containment. Satellites are picking up 20 heat detections in the 48-hour window.
The incident exhibits active, backing, flanking, and torching fire behavior within timber, litter, and understory fuels. The natural-caused fire has accumulated a cost of $18,850,000.
This event occurs within a regional fire season that typically runs from June to October. Nationally, 2,955,961 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 46 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Washington for 37 days. So far it has affected roughly 3,849 acres — about 16 km². Crews have contained 2% of the perimeter, but most of the fire line is still open.
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 2,970,412 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 46% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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