Awatchfire

Jefferson County, Oregon

0512 Box Springs Fire

Burning 17.5 miles west of Mitchell and 22.0 miles south-east of Antelope, since Friday 17 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0512 Box Springs Fire burns 57 miles from Bend and 122 miles from Portland, and 125 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 57 miles from Bend and 122 miles from Portland.

21,432

acres burned so far — about 33 square miles

42

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The 0512 Box Springs Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 21,432 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

209people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

42 days

on record — first written down on Friday 17 July at 3:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 1 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.635, -120.499lat, 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.