Started on Jul 16, 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
- 7 miles southwest of SERVICE CREEK, OR
- Complex
- Rowe Creek Complex
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 10 people
- Complexity
- Type 3 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- How it's behaving
- ActiveFlanking — Grows along the sides, not head-on.Backing — Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
- 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 for 78 days across private timberlands in Wheeler County, Oregon, the Twickenham Fire has maintained a steady trajectory southwest of Service Creek, averaging approximately 3 acres of growth per day to reach a total footprint of 254 acres. Fire behavior on the landscape is currently characterized as active, flanking, and backing through timber litter and understory fuels. Ten personnel operating under a Type 3 Incident command have successfully brought the natural-caused blaze to 100 percent containment, accumulating an estimated cost of $100,000.
This prolonged incident unfolds against a wider backdrop of seasonal activity in a region where the typical fire season spans from June to October. Across the country, 2026 has seen a total of 3,318,049 hectares burned so far, a figure tracking 39 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Oregon for 93 days. In total it burned about 254 acres — around 1.0 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 3,394,363 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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