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Breaks

Custer, MT · Natural

This fire is no longer active. It burned 353 acres in Custer before dropping off the national incident feed.

0%Inactive

353

Acres Burned

66

Days Burning

Sep 5, 2026

Discovered

3w ago

Last Update

Growth

No growth in the last day, containment at 40%
Sep 5 / 600 acresSep 6 / 353 acres

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Public Lands Nearby

1 public land unit within 75 miles

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

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Monument / MT

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Situation Updates

Changes read from NIFC interagency perimeter data

Breaks update: 353 acres

Perimeter data
Sep 5

Per interagency perimeter data, the Breaks was remapped 247 acres lower to 353.

IRWIN

Breaks mapped at 600 acres

Perimeter data
Sep 5

Interagency perimeter data shows the Breaks at 600 acres.

IRWIN

Timeline

Sep 5Now

66 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: f7587f9f-2bb5-49b0-b530-655f1d423a1b

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