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

91

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The 0445 Crosswhite Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 403 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 403 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 0445 Crosswhite Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

403hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:50pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

13.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Fossil at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Mitchell is 16.4 miles, None in the last day.

2.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 0442 Redrock Fire started 11 minutes before this one, 2.9 miles south, and has reached 256 acres. 0444 Twickenham Fire started 1 minutes before this one, 3.2 miles south, and has reached 254 acres with 10 people assigned. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Three larger fires are burning outside this frame: 0450 Cove Creek Fire 12.0 miles north-west at 7,208 acres, 0446 Camel Hump Fire 7.8 miles east at 6,789 acres and 0502 Fire 5.1 miles west at 1,816 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 22.6 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 73% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-93 fire

The record here begins at 1:49pm on 28 Sep and runs to 1:49pm on 28 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 93, so the first 92 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the 0445 Crosswhite Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Mon 1:00pmMon 1:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Mon 28 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon28 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:49pm to 1:49pm
    • Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Wednesday 15 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    342,977 acres on record — 87% contained, 39 personnel assigned

    342,977 ac · 87% held · 39 crew

  3. Monday 24 August

    Containment 89%

    342,977 ac · 89% held · 39 crew

  4. Wednesday 26 August

    Revised to 342,923 acres — containment 91%

    342,923 ac · 91% held · 39 crew

  5. Friday 28 August

    Containment 92%

    342,923 ac · 92% held · 39 crew

  6. Thursday 10 September

    Containment 93%

    342,923 ac · 93% held · 39 crew

  7. Friday 11 September

    Containment 99%

    342,923 ac · 99% held · 39 crew

  8. Friday 2 October

    Containment 100%

    342,923 ac · 100% held · 39 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 39 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 342,923 now. Nothing has looked at it for 403 hours, and the record still lists it as active.