US Wildfire Map

Kemper - Union Hill West Road fire

The verified WFIGS record for this wildfire in MS — size, containment, discovery, and map. Every field is the agency’s own, stamped with when it was last updated; nothing here is estimated.

Active fire (acres)< 1k ac1k+10k+100k+WFIGS · as of 2026-08-23 13:48 UTCNatural Earth
Kemper - Union Hill West Road · MS
Size
140 acres (1 km²)
Contained
100 %
Discovered
2026-08-22 · 4 days active
Cause
Undetermined
Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026
The Kemper - Union Hill West Road fire (no perimeter published for this fire) on the live basemap, with 0 nearby satellite heat detections from the last 24 hours — heat detections are not confirmed fire, and not a photograph. Drag or zoom to explore; the pinned card shows the agency record.

The record

Fire size, by acresFire size, by acresunder 1,000acres1,000–10,000acres10,000–100,000acresover 100,000acresA fire ≥100 acres (or with a mapped perimeter) gets its own record page.
Where this fire sits on the size scale — a fire ≥100 acres (or with a mapped perimeter) gets its own record page.
Size
140 acres (1 km²)
Containment
100 %
Discovered
2026-08-22 · 4 days active
Containment date
not reported by agency
Cause
Undetermined
Type
Wildfire
State
MS
IRWIN ID
{93511330-6947-4E0C-AFD8-C93B899FA7E2}
Unique fire ID
2026-MSMSS-018422

Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026 · record valid as of 2026-08-23 13:48 UTC

Timeline

  1. 2026-08-22 — discovered (WFIGS FireDiscoveryDateTime).
  2. 2026-08-23 — agency last updated the record (4 days active).

Status

Detection to confirmed incident to historicalHeat detectionsatellite —not confirmedConfirmed incidentWFIGS pointon the feedMapped perimetera subset onlyHistoricalaged out of feed —never “extinguished”
A fire record's lifecycle: discovered → active → contained → historical. It's never marked “extinguished” — the record persists.

This fire is currently on the active WFIGS feed, last updated 2026-08-23 13:48 UTC. When it ages out of the active feed, this page persists as a historical record — marked “no longer in the active feed” as of its last-seen date — and is never marked “extinguished.” Containment is not the same as fall-off: a fully-contained fire stays on the feed until the agencies age it out.

Official information

For this incident’s official status, evacuation orders, and emergency information, go to the responsible agencies — this page is a data record, not an emergency service. WFIGS does not publish a per-incident public link, so these are the official portals to search:

Where this comes from

Every field is the WFIGS incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center, shown with its agency “valid as of” time. Missing fields are shown as missing, never zero or inferred. A perimeter is drawn only when the agency published one; nearby heat detections are NASA FIRMS, which are not confirmed fire. See the data sources & methodology page.

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Reviewed by Marko Visic, BSc Physics, MPharm.