Awatchfire

Crook County, Oregon

0500 Coyote Fire

Burning 14.4 miles south-east of Juniper Canyon and 15.4 miles east of Prineville Lake Acres, since Thursday 16 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0500 Coyote Fire burns 41 miles from Bend and 130 miles from Eugene, and 137 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 41 miles from Bend and 130 miles from Eugene.

17,460

acres burned so far — about 27 square miles

42

days burning so far

96%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The 0500 Coyote Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 96 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 96 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 0500 Coyote 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

96hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:00pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

16.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Juniper Canyon 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 Prineville Lake Acres is 17.1 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 11 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 8:00am and 10:00am local time.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 6.2 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 55% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-44 fire

The record here begins at 1:59pm on 24 Aug and runs to 1:59pm on 24 Aug — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 44, so the first 43 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the 0500 Coyote Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Mon 1:00pmMon 1:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:59pm to 1:59pm
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

96% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 8 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 17,460 now. Nothing has looked at it for 96 hours, and the record still lists it as active.