Jefferson County, Oregon
Burning 9.4 miles west of Crooked River Ranch and 9.8 miles east of Camp Sherman, since Thursday 16 July.
27,491
acres burned so far — about 43 square miles
90
days burning so far
99%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 9:09am 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.
90 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.
Conditions measured 13.2 miles from the fire: 26°F, air at 92% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Potato Butte Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 0882 Fire started on Monday 5 October, 9.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. 0152 (Jeffco Assist) Fire started on Wednesday 6 May, 11.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Bench Fire started on Thursday 23 July, 12.1 miles north-east, and has reached 4,000 acres with 146 people assigned. 0440 Fire started 1208 minutes before this one, 12.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. 0658 Round Butte Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 14.3 miles north-east, and has reached 1,163 acres with 16 people assigned. 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 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 143 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.
Thursday 16 July
First reported
Sunday 23 August
5,000 acres on record — 99% contained, 54 personnel assigned
5,000 ac · 99% held · 54 crewTuesday 25 August
Grew to 27,491 acres
27,491 ac · 99% held · 54 crew