PNW Fires Grow Together – 7/26/2026

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It’s crazytown in the Pacific Northwest, today. The Rowe Creek Complex and Hay Creek Complex are basically connected now, and the Brewer and Box Springs have grown into the Rowe Creek Complex. The Beachcomb/Bench Fires are trying to eat Warm Springs, and the Shingle Fire added about 70k acres, yesterday. The Grasshopper Fire, east of Mt. Hood, has grown about 8k acres in past 2 days.

A satellite image captured on the afternoon of 7/25/2026 shows large fires raging across Eastern Oregon.

Black areas on the maps, below, are the polygons mapped by the National Interagency Fire Center via the incident management teams that are trying to figure out how to corral these wild horses of flame. They are not able to keep up with the mapping workload, at the moment. The red and orange dots are satellite heat detections from past 24 hours.

There is now a continuous arc of fire from the Brewer Fire, thru the Box Springs and Rowe Creek Complex up to the Hay Creek Complex, NE of Madras. For scale, Grasshopper to Shingle is 100 air miles.
The Akawa Butte Fire appears to be behaving itself. The new fire yesterday was mainly the fire crews (or fire itself) burning out an area on the western flank that hadn’t burned yet.

Farther east, the situation is no better, though the fires here are largely running in grasslands.

Down around Burns you’ve got the Big Grass Fire over 150k acres and pushing into Idaho, Second Flat over 85k acres, and the Coleman Creek Fire at maybe 80k?
On the Snake River, you’ve got the Fox and Tartar Fires, at around 35k and 10k acres, respectively. Tartar is in Idaho.
Up by Pendleton, the Hagen Fire is chugging away, at about 32k.

Washington is relatively quiet, in comparison. The largest fires mainly started in the first storms, almost 2 weeks ago, and are concentrated in the north of the State.

Fires in Eastern Washington
The Kaiser Canyon Fire continues to spread to the north and northeast. This has been the most destructive fire in the region, burning many many homes and other structures.

I’m on the road this morning, typing this up in a hotel lobby while my wife and kid sleep in. I’ll be back in my office tonight, and we’ll have a livestream. Good luck to everybody out there. If you want to zoom in to better detail on the same datasets we used for the maps, above, check out this web map.