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Rosenbaum

Wheeler, OR · Natural

This fire is no longer active. It burned 483 acres in Wheeler before dropping off the national incident feed.

0%Inactive

483

Acres Burned

89

Days Burning

Aug 14, 2026

Discovered

1w ago

Last Update

Growth

No growth in the last day, containment at 100%
Aug 14 / 5 acresOct 29 / 483 acres

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Public Lands Nearby

12 public land units within 75 miles

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

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Monument / OR

12.9 mi

S

Spring Basin Wilderness Area-Draft

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Wilderness / OR

17.6 mi

W

Bridge Creek Wilderness

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Wilderness / OR

26.4 mi

S

Mill Creek Wilderness

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Wilderness / OR

34.4 mi

SW

Ochoco National Forest

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National Forest / OR

35.1 mi

S

Black Canyon Wilderness

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Wilderness / OR

39.5 mi

SE

Crooked River National Grassland

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National Grassland / OR

59.6 mi

SW

Lower White River Wilderness Area

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Wilderness / OR

69.7 mi

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Lower White River Wilderness (Blm)

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Wilderness / OR

69.7 mi

W

Malheur National Forest

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National Forest / OR

71.4 mi

SE

Strawberry Mountain Wilderness

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Wilderness / OR

73.2 mi

SE

Lower White River Wilderness

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Wilderness / OR

73.5 mi

W

Situation Updates

Posted by the incident management team on InciWeb, plus changes read from NIFC interagency perimeter data

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 483 acres, 100% contained

Perimeter data
Aug 31

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM containment moved from 89% to 100%.

IRWIN

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 483 acres, 89% contained

Perimeter data
Aug 21

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM containment moved from 72% to 89%.

IRWIN

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 483 acres, 72% contained

Perimeter data
Aug 20

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM containment moved from 54% to 72%.

IRWIN

Rosenbaum Fire, Little Bear, Cottonwood Fire, Bologna Fire August 18, 2026 8-28-2026 08-19-2026

Incident team
Aug 19

KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 19, 2026) – Firefighters continue to make steady progress mopping up and building containment on the Bologna, Cottonwood, Little Bear and Rosenbaum fires. Mop-up operations are the methodical and systematic process of identifying and cooling hot spots along the fire’s edge to ensure that heat doesn’t reignite dry vegetation and loft embers outside the fire’s perimeter. Crews a...

InciWeb

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 483 acres, 54% contained

Perimeter data
Aug 19

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM containment moved from 38% to 54%.

IRWIN

Rosenbaum Fire, Little Bear, Cottonwood Fire, Bologna Fire August 18, 2026 8-28-2026 08-18-2026

Incident team
Aug 18

Firefighters continue building containment across all fires, hot, dry and gusty conditions forecasted in the region KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 18, 2026) – Firefighters continue to make steady progress mopping up and building containment on the Bologna, Cottonwood, Little Bear and Rosenbaum fires. Mop-up operations are the methodical and systematic process of identifying and cooling hot spots along the f...

InciWeb

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 483 acres, 38% contained

Perimeter data
Aug 18

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM containment moved from 16% to 38%.

IRWIN

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 483 acres, 16% contained

Perimeter data
Aug 17

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM grew 253 acres to 483 and containment moved from 0% to 16%.

IRWIN

Bologna Cottonwood Little Bear and Rosenbaum Fires Morning Update Aug 17, 2026 08-17-2026

Incident team
Aug 17

Firefighters continue building containment across all area fires KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 17, 2026) – Firefighters continue to make steady progress and build containment on the Bologna, Cottonwood, Little Bear and Rosenbaum fires. Firefighters continue to strengthen control lines across all incidents. Crews have mopped up into 50 feet along portions of the Rosenbaum Fire and well into 200 and 300 feet...

InciWeb

Bologna Cottonwood Little Bear and Rosenbaum Fires Morning Update Aug 16, 2026 08-16-2026

Incident team
Aug 16

Hold and secure: firefighters make significant progress on Rosenbaum Fire KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 16, 2026) – Firefighters made significant progress on the Rosenbaum fire, leading to the reopening of the single-lane closure on Highway 19 and reducing some evacuation levels in Grant County. Today they look to hold and improve control lines and tie in critical line along the southwestern portion of the...

InciWeb

Bologna Cottonwood Little Bear and Rosenbaum Fires Morning Update Aug 15, 2026 08-15-2026

Incident team
Aug 15

Firefighters provide aggressive initial attack, expanding control lines and slowing Rosenbaum Fire from expanding KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug. 15, 2026) – Yesterday, firefighters provided a robust initial attack supported by aviation resources to significantly slow growth and started to establish fire lines around the majority of the Rosenbaum Fire. Their efforts prevented structure loss and successfully ...

InciWeb

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 230 acres

Perimeter data
Aug 14

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM grew 130 acres to 230.

IRWIN

Bologna, Cottonwood, Little Bear and Rosenbaum Fires Morning Update Aug. 14, 2026 08-14-2026

Incident team
Aug 14

ODF CIMT-3 assumes command of the rapidly-growing Rosenbaum Fire, firefighters continue to build containment on other fires KIMBERLY, Ore. (Aug 14, 2026) – This morning, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Complex Incident Management Team (CIMT) 3 assumed command of the rapidly-growing Rosenbaum Fire. The 200-acre Rosenbaum Fire is located in the Service Creek area, around mile marker 75 of ...

InciWeb

0722 ROSENBAUM update: 100 acres

Perimeter data
Aug 14

Per interagency perimeter data, the 0722 ROSENBAUM grew 95 acres to 100.

IRWIN

0722 ROSENBAUM mapped at 5 acres

Perimeter data
Aug 14

Interagency perimeter data shows the 0722 ROSENBAUM at 5 acres.

IRWIN

Timeline

Aug 14Now

89 days since discovery

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Data Sources

Fire data from NIFC Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) via IRWIN. Satellite hotspots from NASA FIRMS VIIRS. Situation updates are either posted by the incident management team on InciWeb or read by us from WFIGS perimeter data, and each one says which. Air quality data from EPA AirNow. Public lands boundaries from USGS PAD-US 4.0.

IRWIN ID: 2059a645-6d4b-4ef9-8d1a-8ea49732a456

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