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Gilliam County, Oregon

0584 Cottonwood Fire

Burning 15.0 miles east of Moro and 16.2 miles south-east of Wasco, since Thursday 23 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0584 Cottonwood Fire burns 106 miles from Bend and 108 miles from Portland, and 132 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 106 miles from Bend and 108 miles from Portland.

15,659

acres burned so far — about 24 square miles

83

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The 0584 Cottonwood Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 15,659 acres in Gilliam 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

83 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 23 July at 9:51am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

45.453, -120.426lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 0476 Hoag Fire started on Thursday 16 July, 7.6 miles north, and has reached 50,224 acres with 24 people assigned. 0460 Hopkin Fire started on Wednesday 15 July, 12.0 miles south-east, and has reached 11,366 acres with 24 people assigned. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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.

How the record has moved

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.

  1. Thursday 23 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    15,658 acres on record — 100% contained

    15,658 ac · 100% held
  3. Friday 28 August

    Revised to 10,200 acres

    10,200 ac · 100% held
  4. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 15,659 acres

    15,659 ac · 100% held