Dudley Fire
The Dudley Fire was reported on August 26, 2026 in Shoshone County, Idaho and burned 800 acres. It is 100 percent contained. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 800 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 26, 2026
- Personnel
- 26
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeter mapped September 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM PDT, 800 acres (ir image interpretation). Point of origin 47.539, -115.921.
The incident
- Size
- 800 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 26, 2026 at 9:44 AM PDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- 5 Miles N from Wallace, ID
- County
- Shoshone County
- State
- Idaho
- Protecting agency
- USFS
- Jurisdiction
- USFS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 26
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 3 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $4,397,568
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2026-IDIPF-000730
- IRWIN identifier
- 0BACB318-E160-448F-9185-088B5966DE4C
Growth
Mapped area at the last perimeter of each day, from August 27, 2026 (103 acres) to September 3, 2026 (800 acres). The largest one-day growth was 304 acres, mapped August 29, 2026.
| Day | Acres | Change |
|---|---|---|
| August 27, 2026 | 103 | |
| August 28, 2026 | 253 | +150 |
| August 29, 2026 | 557 | +304 |
| August 30, 2026 | 553 | -4 |
| August 31, 2026 | 672 | +119 |
| September 1, 2026 | 715 | +43 |
| September 2, 2026 | 785 | +70 |
| September 3, 2026 | 800 | +15 |
Weather at the fire
- Wind up to 3 mph from the northwest
- Relative humidity as low as 32%
- High of 77°F
National Weather Service hourly forecast for the fire’s point of origin, next 24 hours.
Alerts in force
Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches covering the fire's point of origin.
No Red Flag Warning or Fire Weather Watch is in force at the fire.
Smoke
NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System analysts have not drawn smoke over the fire’s origin today.
NOAA’s smoke model forecasts near-surface smoke at the origin peaking at 0.7 µg/m³ around Sun, 4:00 AM PDT over the next 48 hours.
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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 September 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM PDT. Identifier 2026-IDIPF-000730.