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Shoshone fire, November 2026 Shoshone

Burning · last detection 4 Nov 2026, 21:52 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 2 November 2026 in Shoshone, United States. It has been active for 3 days, with 41 heat detections and an area with fire of about 476 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across a single county.

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NIFC has not yet published the perimeter of this fire. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Is it still active?

Satellites detected fire on 4 Nov 2026, 21:52 UTC. Everything suggests it is still burning. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.

Wind, humidity and rain for the next 72 h

Area with fire
≈ 476ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
3days
2 Nov 2026 – 4 Nov 2026
Counties hit
1
counties
Started on
2 Nov
2026
Heat detections
41
in a single hotspot: 103 MW
Average daily power
594MW
detected power per day, on average

The next 72 hours

The wind is almost calm (3 km/h) and no sharp shifts are expected until Sat 7, 22:00.

ECMWF IFS 0.25° at the centre of the fire · computed 5 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC

Thu 5, 04:00, local time

First useful rain: 2.0 mm in 6 h

Chance of rain up to 90 % in those hours. It can slow the fire at the surface, but that does not mean it will go out.

Checked, no warning: no wind shifts of more than 60° nights recover humidity (peaks of 94 % or more)

Hour by hour, local time

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Mean wind Gusts where it blows to Relative humidity Night (8 pm to 8 am) Rain (mm) · chance in %

Where is it blowing? The next 48 h

geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain)

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    This is not an official warning. It is a global model forecast with cells of about 25 km, at the centre of the fire: it cannot see valley winds or the winds the fire itself creates. The fan shows where the wind blows, not where the fire will spread. If in doubt, follow what the authorities say.

    Emergencies · United States 911 Emergency number and official warnings

    Forecast: ECMWF IFS 0.25° (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), served by our own Open-Meteo instance; the chance of rain comes from the ECMWF ensemble. Variables: wind and gusts at 10 m, wind at 850 hPa, relative humidity and temperature at 2 m, rain. Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).

    Fire: VIIRS (NASA FIRMS); hotspots from the last 24 h: VIIRS from NASA FIRMS. Boundaries: geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain).

    How it is worked out: wind shift = a change of more than 60° in 6 h or less, with at least 15 km/h before and after; no overnight recovery = peak humidity between 8 pm and 8 am stays below 55 %; useful rain = 2 mm or more in 6 h. The fan opens 18° plus however much the wind varies within ±3 h and reaches 25 km beyond the edge of the fire: one model cell, not a rate of spread. Methodology

    Where it burned

    HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Nov4 Nov
    4 Nov 2026

    How it evolved, day by day

    2 Nov 2026 · 118 MW · 4 4 Nov 2026 · 1,071 MW · 37
    2 Nov 4 Nov

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

    What happened to each county

    1. Shoshone where it started
      476 ha reached on 2 Nov
      0.1 %

    Area with fire inside each county, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until NIFC publishes the official perimeter. 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.

    Before and after, from space

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

    Before · 26 Oct 2026
    After · 4 Nov 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.

    Cities with smoke from this fire

    According to the CAMS forecast and the wind at 850 hPa, this fire is today the most likely main source of smoke in:

    1. 27 µg Smoke today in East Kootenay B ×1.8 the WHO guideline today · 82 % of the upwind weight · 233 km away
    2. 27 µg Smoke today in Tobacco Plains 2 ×1.8 the WHO guideline today · 68 % of the upwind weight · 214 km away
    3. 24 µg Smoke today in Pend Oreille ×1.6 the WHO guideline today · 55 % of the upwind weight · 165 km away

    An estimate without a dispersion model, based on a model forecast: not a measurement.

    Detections table · 41Every 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 Shoshone fire last?
    According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 2 November 2026 to 4 November 2026 (3 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
    How much area did it burn?
    There is no official perimeter yet: NIFC has not published it. Heat detections rebuild about 476 hectares with fire (4.8 km²).
    Which counties burned?
    The fire only entered Shoshone (476 ha, 0.1 %).
    Is the Shoshone fire still active?
    Yes: satellites detected fire on 4 Nov 2026, 21:52 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
    What weather is expected at the fire over the next 72 hours?
    The wind is almost calm (3 km/h) and no sharp shifts are expected until Sat 7, 22:00. First useful rain: 2.0 mm in 6 h (Thu 5, 04:00). Times are local time at the fire. ECMWF IFS forecast (Open-Meteo) computed 5 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC; this is not an official warning.
    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 · Emergency number and official warnings

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    How we know this
    • No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 476 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
    • Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 41 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.

    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.