Wolf Creek 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.

Wolf Creek · ID

Size: 850 acres (3 km²)
Contained: 25 %
Discovered: 2026-07-17 · 40 days active
Cause: Undetermined

Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026

The Wolf Creek fire and its mapped perimeter on the live basemap, with 22 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: 850 acres (3 km²)
Containment: 25 %
Discovered: 2026-07-17 · 40 days active
Containment date: not reported by agency
Cause: Undetermined
Type: Wildfire
State: ID
IRWIN ID: {F706588F-5EEC-4ACD-8FF1-2CDA2C432F37}
Unique fire ID: 2026-IDNCF-000295

Source: NIFC WFIGS — retrieved Aug 2026 · record valid as of 2026-08-21 15:23 UTC

Timeline

2026-07-17 — discovered (WFIGS FireDiscoveryDateTime).
2026-08-21 — agency last updated the record (40 days active).

Status

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 2026-08-21 15:23 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:

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.

Is this fire's smoke reaching you? Check the smoke map and air quality map.

Reviewed by Marko Visic, BSc Physics, MPharm.