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Wickiup Creek, Owyhee County, Idaho:  Weather

Elevation: 5675 feet

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Big Grass Fire Status - Sunday Morning (8/9/2026)

The Big Grass Fire had a scary night. The fire moved north from Mud Flat along the road to the edge of the Wickiup meadow. The map 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. Temperatures continue to be hight and humidity is low causing a hindrance to the fire fighters in the next few days. 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.

The fire is now on the threshold of our Wickiup Cabin. See the webcam picture on the right shows how close the fire was last night. Fire fighters believe they can keep the fire from moving into the meadow, but only time and the weather can say for sure. Bull Basin area,shown as a second yellow dot in the bottom right of the map above also had the fire at its doorstep last night.

Hot, dry conditions, along with gusty afternoon winds, caused the fire to jump across the containment lines, causing the fire to continue to burn into our ranch. There has been heavy air drops of retardant between the fire and Wickiup, as fire fighters attempt to stop the northern movement further into the Wickiup meadow and beyond.

For those who know the Wickiup area and the road into the cabin from Mud Flat the map on the left shows the present hot spots near the cabin. The cabin is the black dot in the far upper left corner of the map, and the black dot in the mid-lower left is CO. The right of the fire bump in the middle is the road fork to Josephine Creek. The finger to the upper left is along the road into Wickiup from the Mud Flat road. The upper portion of the fire boundary pretty much follows the road into Wickiup from the Mud Flat area near the bottom. The fire area in the upper left is where the fire was last night at the south end of the Wickiup meadow.

The northern arm of the main fire near Triangle did provide a slight bit of good news, but is still threatening and is burning in difficult terrain. In the past two days, fire fighters made some progress on the eastern movement on this branch of the fire. The fact that this arm of the fire was burning into the Rosie fire burn scare of two years ago, probably helped reduce the fuel load.

The Big Grass Fire has now burned over 513,000 arces, and 1213 personnel are now on the fire. The Big Grass Fire is now about 40% contained, but mostly in Oregon. See the overall fire map to the right. The very southern end of the fire was the most active right now, and the fire fighters set a number of back fires.

Once they get the fire around Mud Flat and Wickiup controlled, the major portion of the fire fighters will be focused on the most southern arm of the fire. At the moment this branch of the fire is not threatening our ranch or our grazing land.

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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