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Cooley

Mendocino, CA · Undetermined

An active fire at 5% containment. Conditions can change quickly. Check closures before traveling to nearby public lands.

0%Critical

731

Acres Burned

1

Days Burning

Oct 17, 2026

Discovered

5h ago

Last Update

Growth

Grew 731 acres in the last day
Oct 17 / 0 acresOct 18 / 731 acres

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Threatened Public Lands

12 public land units within 75 miles

Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument

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Monument / CA

38 mi

NE

Cache Creek Wilderness Area

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Wilderness / CA

39.5 mi

E

Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument

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Monument / CA

42.2 mi

E

Snow Mountain Wilderness

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Wilderness / CA

46.5 mi

NE

Sanhedrin Wilderness

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Wilderness / CA

47.3 mi

N

Cedar Roughs Wilderness Area

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Wilderness / CA

50.9 mi

E

Yuki Wilderness

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Wilderness / CA

56.3 mi

N

Phillip Burton Wilderness Area

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Wilderness / CA

56.6 mi

S

Mendocino National Forest

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National Forest / CA

58.3 mi

N

Yuki Wilderness Area

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Wilderness / CA

58.8 mi

N

San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge

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Wildlife Refuge / CA

62.8 mi

SE

Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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Wildlife Refuge / CA

65.6 mi

E

Situation Updates

Changes read from NIFC interagency perimeter data

COOLEY update: 731 acres, 5% contained

Perimeter data
Oct 18

Per interagency perimeter data, the COOLEY grew 174 acres to 731.

IRWIN

COOLEY update: 557 acres

Perimeter data
Oct 17

Per interagency perimeter data, the COOLEY was remapped 443 acres lower to 557.

IRWIN

COOLEY update: 1,000 acres

Perimeter data
Oct 17

Per interagency perimeter data, the COOLEY grew 960 acres to 1,000.

IRWIN

COOLEY update: 40 acres

Perimeter data
Oct 17

Per interagency perimeter data, the COOLEY grew 40 acres to 40.

IRWIN

Timeline

Oct 17Now

1 day 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: 730a7dae-e447-4b05-bff0-ccc274788de5

Important

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