Upper Smith fire

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

Upper Smith · ID

Size: 4,576 acres (19 km²)
Contained: 36 %
Discovered: 2026-07-08 · 49 days active
Cause: Natural

Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026

The Upper Smith fire and its mapped perimeter 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

Where this fire sits on the size scale — a fire ≥100 acres (or with a mapped perimeter) gets its own record page.

Size: 4,576 acres (19 km²)
Containment: 36 %
Discovered: 2026-07-08
Containment date: not reported by agency
Cause: Natural
Type: Wildfire
State: ID
IRWIN ID: {AA3DF707-B3F6-41B8-A5FF-BF502A918FFC}
Unique fire ID: 2026-IDIPF-000347

Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026 · record valid as of 2026-08-27 02:34 UTC

Timeline

2026-07-08 — discovered (WFIGS FireDiscoveryDateTime).
2026-08-27 — final agency update before it left the active feed.

Status

A fire record's lifecycle: discovered → active → contained → historical. It's never marked “extinguished” — the record persists.

No longer in the active feed as of 2026-08-27. This is a historical record — the fire is no longer in the active WFIGS feed, and is never marked “extinguished.”

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:

InciWeb — the national incident information system (search by name).
Idaho Department of Lands — state lead on wildfire on state-protected lands.
USDA Forest Service, Northern Region — federal lead on the panhandle national forests (North Idaho).
USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Region — federal lead on central & southern Idaho national forests.
National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) — interagency coordination; publisher of the WFIGS system of record this map reads.
National Interagency Fire Center — publisher of the WFIGS system of record.

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.