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Utah’s Bruneau Fire Now Nearing 60K Acres

Image of Idaho's Bruneau fire
The Bruneau Fire in Idaho began on July 24, 2018 with a lightning strike and has grown to 57,000 acres in just two days mostly burning in grass and brush.

The Bruneau Fire burning in Idaho is located 12 miles northwest of Murphy Hot Springs, right outside of Twin Falls, Idaho. The blaze began on July 24, 2018 with a lightning strike and has grown to 57,000 acres in just two days mostly burning in grass and brush. Its containment percentage is unknown at present. The fire is located in an extremely remote area, burning between the Bruneau and Jarbidge River Canyons. Fire behavior has calmed significantly, mostly smoldering, creeping and backing. Most of the fire activity remains in the canyon bottoms; heavy helicopters capable of dropping up to 2,600 gallons of water a time are focusing on these areas. Fire activity on the flats remains minimal, with crews working the edges of the fire to create and improve containment lines.
NASA’s EOSDIS provides the capability to interactively browse over 600 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data. Many of the available imagery layers are updated within three hours of observation, essentially showing the entire Earth as it looks “right now”. This natural-color satellite image was collected on July 25, 2018. Actively burning areas, detected by thermal bands, are outlined in red. NASA image courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Caption: Lynn Jenner with information from Idaho Fire Info.