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Gilliam County, Oregon

0449 Porcupine Ridge Fire

Burning 8.6 miles west of Condon and 14.8 miles north-west of Fossil, since Wednesday 15 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0449 Porcupine Ridge Fire burns 91 miles from Bend and 114 miles from Portland, and 132 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 91 miles from Bend and 114 miles from Portland.

79,200

acres burned so far — about 124 square miles

91

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The 0449 Porcupine Ridge Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 79,200 acres in Gilliam 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

23people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

91 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 15 July at 6:07pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

45.189, -120.350lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 14.4 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 73% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the south-east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. 0462 Fire started 124 minutes after this one, 7.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. 0456 Fire started 58 minutes after this one, 8.0 miles west, and has reached 25 acres. 0460 Hopkin Fire started 80 minutes after this one, 11.4 miles north-east, and has reached 11,366 acres with 24 people assigned. 0480 Wilcox Fire started 1000 minutes after this one, 13.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres with 24 people assigned. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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.

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

    79,200 acres on record — 100% contained, 23 personnel assigned

    79,200 ac · 100% held · 23 crew