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Tower Fire, June 2026 Millard

Out · last detection 8 Jun 2026, 21:21 UTC

The fire started on 7 June 2026 in Millard, United States, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC) mapped an official burnt perimeter of 554 hectares, spread across a single county.

It is the 152th largest in Utah since 2016 (of 165 with a page). Number 362 in United States in 2026, of 423.

Burnt area
554ha
official perimeter (MTBS / NIFC)
Duration
1day
7 Jun 2026 – 7 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
1
counties
Started on
7 Jun
2026
Heat detections
23
in a single hotspot: 313 MW
Danger at start
66
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
1.9GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

8 Jun 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Jun7 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

78

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

The weather it burned in

30°high
65km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Millard where it started
    553 ha reached on 7 Jun
    0.0 %

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)
7 Jun 29.5 °C 9 % 62 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
8 Jun after 29.5 °C 9 % 65 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
9 Jun after 28.4 °C 9 % 64 km/h 0.9 mm Extreme 53
10 Jun after 30.3 °C 6 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
11 Jun after 24.7 °C 6 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
12 Jun after 31.3 °C 6 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
13 Jun after 32.0 °C 9 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
14 Jun after 31.1 °C 10 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
15 Jun after 31.9 °C 8 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
16 Jun after 33.3 °C 7 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
17 Jun after 35.4 °C 7 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
18 Jun after 32.5 °C 3 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 May 2026
After · 14 Jun 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 10 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak15 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1049 µg/m³
Optical depth0.22
567891011
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 · 23Every 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 Tower fire last?
It burned between 7 June 2026 and 7 June 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 554 hectares (5.5 km²). Other tallies, such as daily incident reports, may give slightly different figures.
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Millard (553 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.5 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 65 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, 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.

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.