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Sand Creek Fire

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High significance Active 14% contained Beaverhead, Montana · Last updated · source: NASA EONET

The Sand Creek fire in Beaverhead, Montana is uncontained and has burned 1,684 acres, threatening homes with direct fire damage in the affected area.

Overview written from official NASA EONET and National Interagency Fire Center/IRWIN data.

Type
Wildfires
Official size
32,306 acres
Containment
14%
Cause
Undetermined
Began
Status
Ongoing

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Affected area map

The shaded area is the affected-area perimeter reported for this event by NASA EONET (Beaverhead, Montana), colored by hazard type. Pan and zoom to explore the map; when more than one observation exists, use the slider below to step through how the reported area changed.

Interactive affected-area map

Beaverhead, Montana · ≈ 53 sq mi reported extent · Enable JavaScript to explore the map.

View the timeline — how the reported area changed

Official size & containment

Official incident size and containment reported through NIFC / IRWIN, as we observed it. Newest first.

  1. 32,306 acres ±0 14% contained
  2. 32,306 acres ±0 10% contained
  3. 32,306 acres +549 10% contained
  4. 31,757 acres ±0 7% contained
  5. 31,757 acres ±0 7% contained
  6. 31,757 acres +90 7% contained
  7. 31,667 acres ±0 7% contained
  8. 31,667 acres ±0 2% contained
Show 18 earlier observations
  1. 31,667 acres +15 2% contained
  2. 31,652 acres ±0 1% contained
  3. 31,652 acres ±0 1% contained
  4. 31,652 acres +3,916 1% contained
  5. 27,736 acres ±0 0% contained
  6. 27,736 acres +160 0% contained
  7. 27,576 acres +7,893 0% contained
  8. 19,683 acres +3,899 0% contained
  9. 15,784 acres +4,088 0% contained
  10. 11,696 acres ±0 0% contained
  11. 11,696 acres +2,806 0% contained
  12. 8,890 acres +2,206 1% contained
  13. 6,684 acres +5,000 1% contained
  14. 1,684 acres ±0 0% contained
  15. 1,684 acres +284 0% contained
  16. 1,400 acres +400 0% contained
  17. 1,000 acres ±0 0% contained
  18. 1,000 acres 0% contained

Shown as reported by our sources — not an official product. For current advisories and the authoritative map, see NASA EONET ↗.

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Latest updates

Official updates and news coverage for this event, newest first — National Weather Service products, local storm reports, incident updates and press headlines. Official items are verbatim government text; news headlines link out to the original outlet.

  1. Incident update InciWeb

    Sand Creek

    Located approximately 7.5 miles southeast of Wisdom, the fire was initially reported at 1:45 pm on August 1, 2026 and was estimated at 40 acres. Fire behavior was crowning and torching in live green and dead and down subalpine fir.

    Read the full update at InciWeb ↗

Updates are captured automatically from official and news sources, and may lag the live source. For the very latest, see NASA EONET ↗.

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