Awatchfire

Crook County, Oregon

0468 Fire

Burning 19.8 miles west of Mitchell and 20.7 miles north-east of Ochoco West, since Thursday 16 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0468 Fire burns 50 miles from Bend and 123 miles from Portland, and 124 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 50 miles from Bend and 123 miles from Portland.

0

acres burned so far

43

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:37pm today

The 0468 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 66 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 66 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 0468 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

66hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

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

18.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Mitchell 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 Ochoco West is 20.4 miles, None in the last day.

2.9miles

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

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: 0512 Box Springs Fire 6.6 miles north-east at 21,432 acres and 0611 Green Mountain Fire 10.0 miles south-west at 2,136 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 17 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 12.2 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 40% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-44 fire

The record here begins at 2:54am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:17am on 26 Aug — 96 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 44, so the first 42 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.

Animated map of the 0468 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 35 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 2 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:54am to 2:54am
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Auglatest

    Today so far

    • 2 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 3:17am
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 66 hours, and the record still lists it as active.