The Castle fire began in Douglas, Oregon on July 23, 2026, and has burned 1,550 acres with no containment to date. Homes in the affected area face direct fire damage risk.
Overview written from official NASA EONET and National Interagency Fire Center/IRWIN data.
- Type
- Wildfires
- Official size
- 3,612 acres
- Containment
- 67%
- Cause
- Natural
- Began
- Status
- Ongoing
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Affected area map
The shaded area is the affected-area perimeter reported for this event by NASA EONET (Douglas, Oregon), colored by hazard type. Pan and zoom to explore the map; when more than one observation exists, use the slider below to step through how the reported area changed.
Interactive affected-area map
Douglas, Oregon · ≈ 5.6 sq mi reported extent · Enable JavaScript to explore the map.
2026-08-07 18:21 UTC · ≈ 5.6 sq mi · snapshot 8 of 8
View the timeline — how the reported area changed
Official size & containment
Official incident size and containment reported through NIFC / IRWIN, as we observed it. Newest first.
- 3,612 acres +2,062 67% contained
- 1,550 acres ±0 48% contained
- 1,550 acres −1,445 48% contained
- 2,995 acres +199 48% contained
- 2,796 acres +38 35% contained
- 2,758 acres +1,208 30% contained
- 1,550 acres ±0 22% contained
- 1,550 acres −1,063 22% contained
Show 12 earlier observations
- 2,613 acres +184 22% contained
- 2,429 acres ±0 15% contained
- 2,429 acres +879 8% contained
- 1,550 acres −745 8% contained
- 2,295 acres +745 8% contained
- 1,550 acres −433 8% contained
- 1,983 acres +256 8% contained
- 1,727 acres +177 0% contained
- 1,550 acres −177 0% contained
- 1,727 acres +177 0% contained
- 1,550 acres ±0 0% contained
- 1,550 acres 0% contained
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Latest updates
Official updates and news coverage for this event, newest first — National Weather Service products, local storm reports, incident updates and press headlines. Official items are verbatim government text; news headlines link out to the original outlet.
- Incident update InciWeb
Castle
Daily Update (pdf) | Daily Map | Daily Smoke Advisory | Facebook | Daily Operations Videos The Castle Fire was first reported on July 22, 2026. It is currently estimated to be 3,612 acres and 67% contained. Nick McCarthy with the Australian Incident Command Team talks about the role of Fire Behavior Analysist and the new and unique challenges of modelling fire behavior in Oregon. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1072162712427661 Fire Activity: Firefighters continue to mop up during the day. Yesterday, potential spots were caught and suppressed. Firing operations have ceased due to successful firing. Control lines remain in place and are holding, while contingency lines continue to be constructed. We are seeing lower smoke production throughout the fire area. The fire is being managed for full suppression.Fire Weather: A cooling trend will begin with temperatures dropping below 100 degrees and slowly falling over the next few days. Humidity will also begin to rise during this period. This trend may bring winds with it that could affect fire behavior. Fuels remain hot and dry.Forest Closures: Umpqua National Forest has expanded the closure area in order to protect the public and provide…
Updates are captured automatically from official and news sources, and may lag the live source. For the very latest, see NASA EONET ↗.