Here is our morning intel assessment livestream of the current situation on the Butler Fire, burning around Forks of Salmon, on the Salmon River, in NW California.
These maps are based on infrared flights conducted at 11pm, on 7/20/2025.
Cover photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service – Klamath National Forest Facebook.
The maps are pretty busy – Here is a legend:
The burned area is shaded in transparent black.
The white line shows the previous 26 hours of fire growth.
Yellow areas are recently burned, but cooling down.
Red areas are intense fire.
Blue areas have burned since 2020.
Light Green areas burned between 2010 and 2020.
There is a north arrow in the upper-right of the maps.
Video Briefing
Management Objectives – From Incident Management Team
Forecasts
A period of moister, cooler weather has arrived. Some high-level moisture is visible on this morning’s satellite imagery. Even so, the fire will continue to be driven by strong afternoon up-canyon winds. In the image below, you can see smoke packed into the Salmon River drainage. This smoke hangs out in the mornings, and often clears out in early afternoon. With the current cool marine air pushing into the area, the smoke will likely not peel out as early in the day as it has been, if it does at all.
