Tie Creek Fire
The Tie Creek Fire was reported on September 5, 2026 in Rosebud County, Montana and burned 167 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 167 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2026
- Personnel
- 9
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 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM MDT, 167 acres (auto-generated for inform). Point of origin 45.466, -106.512.
The incident
- Size
- 167 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM MDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- 12 Miles SE from Lame Deer, MT
- County
- Rosebud County
- State
- Montana
- Protecting agency
- BIA
- Jurisdiction
- BIA
- Land ownership at origin
- Tribal
- Personnel assigned
- 9
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 4 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $20,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2026-MTNCA-000792
- IRWIN identifier
- D8851BB6-1273-412B-8B0E-033E81C81066
Weather at the fire
- Wind up to 10 mph from the west-northwest
- Relative humidity as low as 91%
- High of 58°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 µg/m³ around Sun, 5:00 AM MDT 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 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM MDT. Identifier 2026-MTNCA-000792.