Roe 2 Fire

Beaverhead County, Montana · Wildfire

Contained Official numbers updated Sep 2, 2026 (14 days ago)

First reported about 3 weeks ago

Metric	Last report	Now	Change
Size	1,000 acres Aug 29, 5:00 PM	978 acres Sep 16, 4:00 AM −22 acres was 1,000 acres · Aug 29, 5:00 PM	−22 acres in 17 days
Containment	10% Aug 31, 4:00 PM	100% Sep 16, 4:00 AM +90 percent was 10% · Aug 31, 4:00 PM	+90 percent in 16 days
Crew size	16 Aug 31, 4:00 PM	1 Sep 16, 4:00 AM −15 was 16 · Aug 31, 4:00 PM	−15 in 16 days
Money spent	$150,000 Aug 28, 8:00 PM	$200,000 Sep 16, 4:00 AM +$50,000 was $150,000 · Aug 28, 8:00 PM	+$50,000 in 18 days

Roe 2 Fire summary

The Roe 2 Fire is a wildfire near Beaverhead County, Montana. It has burned about 978 acres (about 741 football fields). Crews have it fully contained, with a line all the way around it. It was first reported about 3 weeks ago. About 1 people are on it, run by a Type 5 IC. We're also tracking 4 other active fires within about 75 miles.

Size: 978 acres
Containment: 100%
Discovered: August 27, 2026 (first reported about 3 weeks ago)
Cause: Not reported

The size and containment above are current as of Wednesday, September 16th at 4:00 a.m. CDT.

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Weather & fire-spread conditions

No Red Flag Warning. The National Weather Service hasn't flagged this area for dangerous fire-spread conditions right now.

Hot, dry, and windy weather can help a fire grow; cool, calm, or wet weather helps crews. The tags below rate each day for fire spread — green is calm, red can push a fire.

A general fire-weather guide (wind matters most, then how dry it is, then heat), not a prediction of what this fire will do.

Overnight

39°F · Partly Cloudy

Wind 3 mph NE · 2% chance of rain

Wind: Calm Heat: Cool Dry

Wednesday

73°F · Sunny

Wind 2 to 10 mph NNW · 0% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry

Wednesday Night

45°F · Partly Cloudy

Wind 2 to 12 mph N · 11% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry

Thursday

75°F · Chance Showers And Thunderstorms

Wind 2 to 17 mph SSE · 47% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Warm Some rain

Thursday Night

48°F · Chance Showers And Thunderstorms

Wind 9 to 17 mph SSE · 47% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Some rain

Forecast from the National Weather Service (weather.gov), pulled Wednesday, September 16th at 4:01 a.m. CDT.

Could this fire move fast?

Weather isn't the only thing that changes how a fire moves. The ground matters too: how steep it is, and what's growing on it. These four numbers are for the exact spot where this fire started, not the whole fire. A big fire crosses a lot of different ground.

2° slope

Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill. Heat and flame lean uphill, drying out the ground above the fire before it gets there.

Not wildfire fuel (NB1)

Urban or developed land. Not a wildland fuel.

0% tree canopy cover

The more tree cover above a fire, the easier it is for the fire to climb from the ground into the treetops. That's called a crown fire. Crown fires move faster, throw embers farther ahead of the fire, and are harder for crews to stop head-on.

5,684 ft elevation

Elevation by itself doesn't make a fire more or less dangerous. But it shapes the other three numbers here: what grows there, how dry things get, and what the weather does.

Elevation and slope from the USGS 3D Elevation Program; fuel type and canopy cover from LANDFIRE (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), pulled Thursday, September 10th at 4:00 p.m. CDT.

Who's on it

About 1 people are assigned to this fire, run by a Type 5 IC. The government rates it a Type 4 Incident. About $200,000 has been spent on it so far.

The official feed reports the total headcount, not a breakdown by crew type.