Butte Creek Fire
The Butte Creek Fire was reported on July 18, 2025 in Wasco County, Oregon and burned 2,046 acres. It was declared out on December 29, 2025.
- Size
- 2,046 acres
- Contained
- 85%
- Discovered
- July 18, 2025
- Personnel
- 271
Map
Perimeter mapped February 3, 2026 at 12:50 PM PST, 2,079 acres (ir image interpretation). Point of origin 44.984, -121.480.
The incident
- Size
- 2,046 acres
- Containment
- 85%
- Discovered
- July 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM PDT
- Contained
- July 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM PDT
- Declared out
- December 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM PST
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- 2 Miles W from Simnasho, OR
- County
- Wasco County
- State
- Oregon
- Nearest city reported
- Warm Springs
- Protecting agency
- BIA
- Jurisdiction
- BIA
- Land ownership at origin
- BIA
- Personnel assigned
- 271
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC, Type 4 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $4,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-ORWSA-000079
- IRWIN identifier
- 3A8C278A-2B30-4BFF-8D07-4E29A6FAF16C
Growth
Mapped area at the last perimeter of each day, from July 20, 2025 (1,757 acres) to February 3, 2026 (2,079 acres). The largest one-day growth was 309 acres, mapped July 22, 2025.
| Day | Acres | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 20, 2025 | 1,757 | |
| July 22, 2025 | 2,065 | +308 |
| July 23, 2025 | 2,071 | +6 |
| July 24, 2025 | 2,071 | 0 |
| July 25, 2025 | 2,079 | +8 |
| February 3, 2026 | 2,079 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Warm Springs, OR covers the area today.
Nearby
- Warm Springs, OR19 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Madras, OR30 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Culver, OR34 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Mount Hood Village, OR35 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Odell, OR45 miles north of the fire’s origin
- The Dalles, OR45 miles north of the fire’s origin
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated March 17, 2026 at 12:19 PM PDT. Identifier 2025-ORWSA-000079.