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Skull

Beaverhead, MT · Natural

This fire is no longer active. It burned 67 acres in Beaverhead before dropping off the national incident feed.

0%Inactive

67

Acres Burned

75

Days Burning

Aug 27, 2026

Discovered

6d ago

Last Update

Growth

No growth in the last day, containment at 100%
Aug 27 / 1 acresNov 4 / 67 acres

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Public Lands Nearby

6 public land units within 75 miles

Anaconda Pintler Wilderness

Go

Wilderness / MT

28.4 mi

NW

Beaverhead National Forest

Go

National Forest / MT

30.5 mi

SE

Deerlodge National Forest

Go

National Forest / MT

43.2 mi

NE

Bitterroot National Forest

Go

National Forest / MT

53.3 mi

NW

Salmon National Forest

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National Forest / ID

55.7 mi

SW

Welcome Creek Wilderness

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Wilderness / MT

75 mi

N

Situation Updates

Changes read from NIFC interagency perimeter data

Skull update: 67 acres, 100% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 25

Per interagency perimeter data, the Skull containment moved from 0% to 100%.

IRWIN

Skull update: 50 acres, 0% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 10

Per interagency perimeter data, the Skull was remapped 17 acres lower to 50.

IRWIN

Skull update: 67 acres, 0% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 2

Per interagency perimeter data, the Skull grew 6 acres to 67.

IRWIN

Skull update: 61 acres, 0% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 1

Per interagency perimeter data, the Skull grew 10 acres to 61.

IRWIN

Skull update: 51 acres, 0% contained

Perimeter data
Aug 30

Per interagency perimeter data, the Skull grew 1 acres to 51.

IRWIN

Skull update: 50 acres

Perimeter data
Aug 29

Per interagency perimeter data, the Skull grew 49 acres to 50.

IRWIN

Skull mapped at 1 acres

Perimeter data
Aug 27

Interagency perimeter data shows the Skull at 1 acres.

IRWIN

Timeline

Aug 27Now

75 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: 23d9d379-feb5-4d6c-b511-485c7d1c3089

Important

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