Awatchfire

Wheeler County, Oregon

0450 Cove Creek Fire

Burning 7.5 miles south-west of Fossil and 18.6 miles east of Antelope, since Wednesday 15 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0450 Cove Creek Fire burns 77 miles from Bend and 119 miles from Portland, and 131 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 77 miles from Bend and 119 miles from Portland.

7,208

acres burned so far — about 11 square miles

44

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The 0450 Cove Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 7,208 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

41people

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 6:08pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.943, -120.346lat, 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.