Wheeler County, Oregon
Burning 7.5 miles south-west of Fossil and 18.6 miles east of Antelope, since Wednesday 15 July.
7,208
acres burned so far — about 11 square miles
91
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 9:09am 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.
91 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.
Conditions measured 11.0 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 73% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. 0502 Fire started 1430 minutes after this one, 8.2 miles south, and has reached 1,816 acres. 0445 Crosswhite Fire started 16 minutes before this one, 12.0 miles south-east, and has reached 342,923 acres with 39 people assigned. 0442 Redrock Fire started 27 minutes before this one, 14.4 miles south-east, and has reached 256 acres. 0501 Pat'S Cabin Fire started 1339 minutes after this one, 15.0 miles south, and has reached 772 acres. 0444 Twickenham Fire started 17 minutes before this one, 15.1 miles south-east, and has reached 254 acres with 10 people assigned. 0482 Cherry Creek Fire started 1052 minutes after this one, 15.2 miles south, and has reached 16 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
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.
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.
Wednesday 15 July
First reported
Sunday 23 August
7,208 acres on record — 100% contained, 41 personnel assigned
7,208 ac · 100% held · 41 crew