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Sunlight Creek

Park, MT · Undetermined

An active fire at 0% containment. Conditions can change quickly. Check closures before traveling to nearby public lands.

0%Critical

1

Acres Burned

0

Days Burning

Oct 3, 2026

Discovered

2h ago

Last Update

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Threatened Public Lands

7 public land units within 75 miles

Middle Fork Canyon National Natural Landmark

Go

Monument / MT

26.8 mi

W

Gallatin National Forest

Go

National Forest / MT

57.1 mi

S

Hailstone National Wildlife Refuge

Go

Wildlife Refuge / MT

59.6 mi

E

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

Check first

Wilderness / MT

62.7 mi

S

Grass Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Check first

Wildlife Refuge / MT

63.4 mi

E

Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area

Go

Wilderness / MT

70.5 mi

SW

Executive Order No. 3053 Federal Game Refuge Withdrawal

Go

NCA / MT

73 mi

S

Situation Updates

Changes read from NIFC interagency perimeter data

SUNLIGHT CREEK mapped at 1 acres

Perimeter data
Oct 3

Interagency perimeter data shows the SUNLIGHT CREEK at 1 acres.

IRWIN

Timeline

Oct 3Now

0 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: 62ebf7c9-8777-4873-8fee-bdde3513be98

Important

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