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0476 Hoag Fire, July 2026 Gilliam, Sherman

Out · last detection 24 Jul 2026, 22:01 UTC

The fire started on 16 July 2026 in Gilliam, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 20,325 hectares, spread across 2 counties.

It is the 38th largest in Oregon since 2016 (of 325 with a page). Number 25 in United States in 2026, of 419.

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Burnt area
20,325ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
≈ 9days
16 Jul 2026 – 24 Jul 2026
Counties hit
2
counties
Started on
16 Jul
2026
Heat detections
327
in a single hotspot: 234 MW
Danger at start
53
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
953MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 16 Jul24 Jul
24 Jul 2026

How it evolved, day by day

16 Jul 2026 · 270 MW · 15 17 Jul 2026 · 1,400 MW · 191 18 Jul 2026 · 127 MW · 14 23 Jul 2026 · 2,416 MW · 52 24 Jul 2026 · 552 MW · 55
16 Jul 17 Jul 18 Jul 23 Jul 24 Jul

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

Fire front film How it spread from one satellite pass to the next (13 passes) and with what wind. Watch the film

The weather it burned in

40°high
57km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

28% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 5,331 ha in 2016, 422 ha in 2020, 38 ha in 2025.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 13% of the area of London (203 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each county

  1. Gilliam where it started
    17,920 ha reached on 16 Jul
    5.7 %
  2. Sherman
    2,440 ha reached on 16 Jul
    1.1 %

Burnt area inside each county, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area2.5 ha
Residents≈ 30

Inside the perimeter there were about 2.5 hectares of built-up land and about 30 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Started with Extreme FWI: 36 % of the area in United States Strong wind: 27 % of the area in United States

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
16 Jul 33.1 °C 28 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
17 Jul 32.0 °C 20 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
18 Jul 33.3 °C 18 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
19 Jul 34.6 °C 13 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
20 Jul 29.9 °C 25 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
21 Jul 37.5 °C 9 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
22 Jul 39.5 °C 17 % 39 km/h 0.2 mm Extreme 55
23 Jul 34.4 °C 33 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
24 Jul 37.8 °C 14 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
25 Jul after 32.7 °C 22 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 68
26 Jul after 32.7 °C 21 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
27 Jul after 33.4 °C 20 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
28 Jul after 30.7 °C 26 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
29 Jul after 31.6 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
30 Jul after 32.9 °C 14 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
31 Jul after 36.6 °C 12 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
1 Aug after 29.4 °C 28 % 60 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 83
2 Aug after 27.1 °C 25 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
3 Aug after 28.1 °C 18 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 53.0, a minimum humidity of 28% and 19 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 16.

FWI at the start 53.0
Minimum humidity 28 %
Days without rain 19
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Rowena Fire, June 2025
1,497 ha 5 days FWI 52.8 Min. humidity 32 % 75 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.7 mm on 21 Jun.

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What happened to them

2 days
median duration
1,503 ha
median area
75 %
went past 1,000 ha
2.1 mm
rain at the end (median; 7 of 16 had it)

It was 13.5 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 9 days, against 2 days.

None of its 16 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 9 of 16, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.1 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
57km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 24 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 7 of 16, with a median of 2.1 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 9 Jul 2026
After · 31 Jul 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 21 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 193 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 78: 5.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak193 µg/m³
Days over the guideline7 days
PM10200 µg/m³
Optical depth1.42
14 Jul17 Jul20 Jul23 Jul26 Jul
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 327Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the 0476 Hoag Fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (16 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 24 July 2026 (9 days from 16 July 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 20,325 hectares (203.2 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 2 counties: Gilliam (17,920 ha, 5.7 %); Sherman (2,440 ha, 1.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 39.5 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 57 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the official burnt perimeter of United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC, public domain), NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of United States. It is not an official report.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 16. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 1,503 ha; 75 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 16 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 9 of 16, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.1 mm.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 911 · Emergency number and official warnings

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: NIFC WFIGS (United States), official.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 327 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology

Where this data comes from

The perimeter is official and in the public domain. For past years it comes from MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity), run by the U.S. Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service, which map it on Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery. For the current and last year it comes from WFIGS at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC): incident perimeters mapped by fire crews, aircraft and imagery. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. County boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from official figures.