COUGAR CREEK

The Cougar Creek Fire is an active wildfire in Okanogan County, Washington, on Clackamas Mountain in Township 37, Range 31, Section 9, near 48.7397, -118.869117. It was first dispatched on August 24, 2026, at 10:21 a.m. The incident is listed as active.

At dispatch, the fire was reported at 0.25 acre. The available information identifies the fuels as timber and understory. No mapped NIFC acreage, containment percentage, mapping timestamp, or confirmed cause was provided in the available facts.

No 24-hour or 7-day acreage change was provided, and no satellite thermal activity data such as VIIRS or MODIS hotspot counts, radiative power, or freshest detection time was included in the available information. As a result, there is not enough verified information here to characterize the current growth trend beyond the fact that the fire remains active.

No incident management team daily update specific to Cougar Creek was provided in the supplied facts. The InciWeb update included with the record is for a different incident and does not describe Cougar Creek, so it cannot be used to summarize Cougar Creek operations.

No evacuation information was provided for Cougar Creek, and no road closures, highway restrictions, forest road closures, or milepost impacts were included in the available facts.

No fire weather alerts or Cougar Creek-specific weather forecast details were provided. The available record also does not include assigned resource counts, personnel totals, aircraft activity, or camera information for this fire. The incident commander is listed as Combs, and the dispatch center is Northeast Washington in Colville.

The latest dispatch comment for Cougar Creek is: “RESOURCES RETURNING 8/25.” No additional field updates or more recent incident comments were included in the provided information.