Awatchfire

Wheeler County, Oregon

0445 Crosswhite Fire

Burning 13.5 miles south of Fossil and 16.0 miles north of Mitchell, since Wednesday 15 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0445 Crosswhite Fire burns 75 miles from Bend and 116 miles from Baker City, and 139 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 75 miles from Bend and 116 miles from Baker City.

342,923

acres burned so far — about 536 square miles

44

days burning so far

92%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The 0445 Crosswhite Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 342,923 acres in Wheeler County, Oregon. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

92% held

92% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

39people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

44 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 15 July at 5:51pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.803, -120.199lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.