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Jefferson County, Oregon

0494 Akawa Butte Fire

Burning 9.4 miles west of Crooked River Ranch and 9.8 miles east of Camp Sherman, since Thursday 16 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0494 Akawa Butte Fire burns 30 miles from Bend and 83 miles from Salem, and 83 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 30 miles from Bend and 83 miles from Salem.

27,491

acres burned so far — about 43 square miles

43

days burning so far

99%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The 0494 Akawa Butte Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 27,491 acres in Jefferson 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.

99% held

99% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

54people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

43 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 16 July at 1:41pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.472, -121.453lat, 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.