US Wildfire Map

White Whale fire

The verified WFIGS record for this wildfire in WI — 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 2026-08-19 14:04 UTCNatural Earth
White Whale · WI
Size
11.22 acres (0 km²)
Contained
not reported by agency
Discovered
2026-08-17 · 9 days active
Cause
Human
Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026
The White Whale 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

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
11.22 acres (0 km²)
Containment
not reported by agency
Discovered
2026-08-17
Containment date
not reported by agency
Cause
Human
Type
Wildfire
State
WI
IRWIN ID
{2221A0B7-5F0A-42E8-AEA5-0457AA39120F}
Unique fire ID
2026-WIWIS-FIRE125293

Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026 · record valid as of 2026-08-19 14:04 UTC

Timeline

  1. 2026-08-17 — discovered (WFIGS FireDiscoveryDateTime).
  2. 2026-08-19 — final agency update before it left the active feed.

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.

No longer in the active feed as of 2026-08-19. 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:

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.

Related

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Reviewed by Marko Visic, BSc Physics, MPharm.