Fire 594 — Wheeler County, Oregon
2026 fire · archived record · NIFC lists this incident as “0594” · 9 Miles N from Mitchell, OR
The Fire 594 burned in Wheeler County, Oregon, 9.3 mi (15 km) N of Mitchell. The last size NIFC published for it was 298 acres, at 100% containment. It was first reported on July 23, 2026, and the cause is recorded as undetermined.
- Size
- 298 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 23, 2026
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Personnel assigned
- 0
- Complexity
- Type 1 Incident
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Fire behaviour
- Active
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What the containment figure means
Crews have a control line all the way around this fire. That is not the same as the fire being out — a fire can be 100% contained and still burning inside that line for weeks. NIFC does not report a fire as out until the whole thing is cold.
How far it is from town
Straight-line distance and the direction you would look from each town to reach the fire's reported point of origin. A large fire is tens of miles across, so its nearest edge is closer than this — these are distances to the origin point NIFC publishes, not to the fire's edge.
| Town | Distance | Direction | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell | 9.3 mi (15 km) | N | Wheeler |
| Prineville | 44 mi (71 km) | NE | Crook |
| Madras | 49 mi (78 km) | E | Jefferson |
| Warm Springs | 55 mi (89 km) | E | Jefferson |
| Redmond | 59 mi (95 km) | ENE | Deschutes |
Mapped perimeter
The mapped perimeter encloses 298 acres, as of the mapping run on Jul 23, 2026, 7:04 PM PDT. Perimeter acreage and reported acreage routinely disagree, and the mapped figure can go down when a fire is flown or walked properly for the first time — that is a correction to the map, not the fire shrinking.
How this fire grew
Every figure below is a value FireWatcher observed on NIFC's feed at that time, kept because NIFC does not publish a history. Daily change can be negative: reported acreage is revised downward when a fire is mapped properly, and complexes reassign acreage between member fires.
| Date | Acres | Change | Contained | Personnel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 | 298 | — | 0% | — |
| 2026-07-31 | 298 | 0 | 100% | — |
| 2026-08-07 | 298 | 0 | 100% | — |
| 2026-08-11 | 298 | 0 | 100% | — |
| 2026-08-12 | 298 | 0 | 100% | — |
| 2026-08-13 | 298 | 0 | 100% | — |
| 2026-08-14 | 298 | 0 | 100% | — |
Where to get official information
FireWatcher does not carry evacuation levels and is not an official source. Evacuation levels for this fire are issued by the Wheeler County Sheriff's Office, not by any of the feeds on this page. If you are deciding whether to leave, use these:
- OR-Alert — the state's emergency alert system. Sign up before you need it.
- Central Oregon Fire Info — the interagency public information site for fires in this region.
- InciWeb — official incident pages for larger fires, published by the managing agency.
- NWS Pendleton and NWS Portland — red flag warnings and fire weather watches.
Other fires burning nearby
- Crosswhite Fire
342,923 acres · 93% contained · Wheeler County
- Shingle Fire
73,183 acres · 95% contained · Wheeler County
- Cove Creek Fire
7,208 acres · 100% contained · Wheeler County
- Camel Hump Fire
6,789 acres · 90% contained · Wheeler County
- Fire 502
1,816 acres · 100% contained · Wheeler County
- Pat's Cabin Fire
772 acres · 100% contained · Wheeler County
- Rosenbaum Fire
483 acres · 100% contained · Wheeler County
- Parrish Fire
404 acres · 100% contained · Wheeler County
Where these numbers come from
Incident name, acreage, containment, cause, personnel and complexity are read straight from the National Interagency Fire Center's WFIGS interagency feed (CC-BY 3.0), which FireWatcher polls every five minutes; this page was built from the poll at Sep 11, 2026, 1:14 PM PDT (2 minutes ago). Perimeters come from the same source. Satellite heat is NASA FIRMS VIIRS. Weather is the National Weather Service. Aircraft positions are ADS-B via adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0). Camera positions are ALERTWest / University of Oregon and ODOT TripCheck. Distances are computed here from the published point of origin.
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