Wrights Spring Fire (Oregon)
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 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
- 2 Miles W from Sprague River, OR
- Personnel
- 167
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Creeping, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- USFS · Federal land
Burning for 27 days through timber, grass, and understory on federal land managed by the USFS, the 55,134-acre Wrights Spring Fire is located two miles west of Sprague River, Oregon, in Klamath County, near Klamath Falls. The fire has expanded at an average daily growth of approximately 2,042 acres per day, though satellites are currently picking up a single heat detection in the 48-hour window, reflecting minimal, creeping, and smoldering fire behavior on the ground.
Containment on the Type 2 incident has reached 95 percent under the direction of a Complex Incident Management Team directing 243 personnel. The fire, which started on August 5, 2026, has accumulated a total cost of $40,094,000.
This activity occurs within a regional fire season that typically runs from June to October. Across the country, 3,150,304 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 43 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Oregon for 32 days. So far it has affected roughly 55,134 acres — about 223 km². At 95% containment, the fire is nearly under control.
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 3,178,795 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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