Shingle Fire — Wheeler County, Oregon

Active fire · data from NIFC, refreshed 3 minutes ago · NIFC lists this incident as “0587 SHINGLE” · 14 Miles SE from Mitchell, OR

The Shingle Fire is burning in Wheeler County, Oregon, 14 mi (23 km) ESE of Mitchell. NIFC's most recent report puts it at 73,183 acres and 95% contained. It was first reported on July 23, 2026, and the cause is recorded as natural.

Size

73,183 acres

Contained

95%

Discovered

July 23, 2026

Cause

Natural

Personnel assigned

48

Complexity

Type 1 Incident

Protecting agency

DOF

Fuel

Short Grass (1 foot)

Fire behaviour

Minimal

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What the containment figure means

Crews have a completed control line around 95% of this fire’s edge. The remaining 5% is where it can still spread.

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.

Mapped perimeter

The mapped perimeter encloses 73,183 acres, as of the mapping run on Aug 20, 2026, 2:43 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.

Satellite heat

No VIIRS thermal detections have landed inside this fire's footprint in the last 24 hours. That is normal for a fire that is mostly out, and also normal for one that is burning under a smoke layer or between satellite overpasses — the polar orbiters pass roughly four times a day. Source: NASA FIRMS VIIRS (NOAA-20, 375 m).

Fire weather and where the smoke is going

Read at Prineville Airport, 48 mi (77 km) from this fire — the one point FireWatcher polls the National Weather Service for. It is regional context, not this fire's own weather, and over that distance it can be wrong.

70°F, 28% relative humidity, wind 0 mph from the N gusting 12 mph.

The transport wind — the layer that actually carries a smoke column — is 7 mph out of the W, so smoke from fires in this area is being pushed toward the east, with a mixing height around 500 ft — the lower that number, the more smoke stays down where people breathe it.

Cameras near this fire

ODOT TripCheck road cameras

• US26 at Keyes Summit
  9.1 mi (15 km) away, fire lies SE of the camera
• US26 at Picture Gorge
  15 mi (24 km) away, fire lies W of the camera
• US26 at Picture Gorge
  15 mi (24 km) away, fire lies W of the camera
• Crook Co - OR380 at Paulina
  24 mi (38 km) away, fire lies N of the camera

Live views are on the map. ALERTWest units are mountaintop pan-tilt-zoom cameras and they move, so "panned toward the fire" is where the camera was pointed at the last data refresh, not a promise of what is in frame. TripCheck cameras are fixed and look at the road, not at the fire.

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
• 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
• Redrock Fire
  256 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, 12:29 PM PDT (3 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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