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Range 6 Fire, February 2026 Perry

Out · last detection 20 Feb 2026, 18:18 UTC

The fire started on 20 February 2026 in Perry, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 1,427 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 7th largest in Mississippi since 2016 (of 23 with a page). Number 222 in United States in 2026, of 423.

Burnt area
1,427ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
20 Feb 2026 – 20 Feb 2026
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
20 Feb
2026
Heat detections
22
in a single hotspot: 84 MW
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
14MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 20 Feb20 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

20

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

The weather it burned in

29°high
59km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.1 mm on 26 Feb.

This area had burned before

55% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 8 ha in 2018, 60 ha in 2020, 624 ha in 2021, 564 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 787 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Perry where it started
    1,431 ha reached on 20 Feb
    0.8 %

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

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)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
20 Feb 28.6 °C 55 % 35 km/h 2.1 mm Very low 1
21 Feb after 26.7 °C 64 % 42 km/h 5.2 mm Very low 1
22 Feb after 16.7 °C 19 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
23 Feb after 11.8 °C 21 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
24 Feb after 15.1 °C 25 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
25 Feb after 21.5 °C 50 % 55 km/h 0.2 mm Low 9
26 Feb after 23.5 °C 64 % 45 km/h 2.1 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 13 Feb 2026
After · 27 Feb 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 22 February 2026 the air beside the fire reached 29 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak29 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1030 µg/m³
Optical depth0.75
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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 · 22Every 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 Range 6 fire last?
It burned between 20 February 2026 and 20 February 2026: 1 day, according to the start date recorded by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) and the heat detections seen by satellite.
How much area did it burn?
The official perimeter published by United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) is 1,427 hectares (14.3 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Perry (1,431 ha, 0.8 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 28.6 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 7, class Low.
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.

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

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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.