Started on Jun 26, 2026.
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🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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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
- 12 miles northeast of Fillmore, UT
- People working on it
- 19 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 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
- MinimalIsolated Torching — Single scattered trees flaring up whole, like torches.Creeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.Smoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- Jurisdiction
- USFS · Federal 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 federal timber and understory land managed by the USFS, the Wild Goose Fire near Fillmore, Utah, has scorched 12,665 acres over 45 days of activity, averaging an estimated 281 acres of growth per day. Despite sitting within Millard County at 12 miles northeast of Fillmore, where the regional fire season typically runs from June to October, current operations by 19 personnel operating under a Type 4 Incident management structure have successfully brought the blaze to 100 percent containment with a total cost of $18,278,317.
Although the incident is now contained, satellite monitoring over the past 48 hours still registers six heat detections nearby, while remaining active fire behavior is characterized as minimal, featuring isolated torching, creeping, and smoldering. This event unfolds during a broader national landscape where 2,761,076 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 50 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Utah for 46 days. In total it burned about 12,665 acres — around 51 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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