Camas in Bloom Spring of 2022

Wickiup Creek, Owyhee County, Idaho:  Weather

Elevation: 5675 feet

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Big Grass Fire Status - Thursday Morning (8/6/2026)

The Big Grass Fire grew moderately yesterday and today. The picture above shows todays fire border in dark red and the present burning fire and overnight growth in orange. The ranch cabin at Wickiup, where the below webcam pictures originate is located at the yellow dot just below the old Rosie fire burn scare from 2024 - in the middle right of the picture. As you can see from the webcam pictures below, much work is being done to protect the ranch cabin. We will try to keep you up-to-date as the fire burns our ranch grazing area and approaches the Wickiup cabin. Unfortunately temperatures are on the rise and humidity is low causing a hindrance to the fire fighters in the next few days.

The fire is now only a few miles from our Wickiup Cabin, moving north from the Mud Flat Road and south from the Triangle area. The fire is clearly now threatening our main ranch property. See the picture on the left with the retardant air drop last evening. Our presently threatened smaller Bull Basin ranch location is shown as a second yellow dot in the bottom right of the map. Yesterday and last night the fire fighters started a back fire at Mud Flat to try and stop the eastward burn along Mud Flat road. The The back burn can clearly be seen on the map just to the right of Bull Basin. The fire continues to move north of Bull Basin, toward CO and Wickiup. There has been heavy air drops of retardant between the fire and Wickiup as fire fighters attempt to stop both the northern movement and southern movement toward Wickiup.This burning area between the north and south burning areas shown on the map includes most of our private ranch land and grazing allotment land. At this point we don't know if any cattle have been lost, but our grazing feed is burning. We spent much of the yesterday morning moving cattle from the more threatened pastures.

The northern arm of the fire near Triangle is still threatening and is burning in difficult terrain; making it a challenge for fire fighters. The fire fighters are putting in containment lines and have use back fires to try and stop this southeasterly growth into our ranch.

The Big Grass Fire has now burned nearly 360,000 arces, and 959 personell are on the fire - an increase of 120 from Monday. The Big Grass Fire is now 39% contained, but mostly in Oregon. See the overall fire map to the right. A new fire fighters base camp has been setup off Mud Flat Road; moving most of the support from Vale to the Idaho side of the fire, so the fire fighters are closer to the hot spots.

The most recent operational fire information can be found on YouTube at: @BigGrassFireInformation2026. Several updates are made each day, so check back regularly for the most recent update. 

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