Awatchfire

Wheeler County, Oregon

0587 Shingle Fire

Burning 14.5 miles south-east of Mitchell and 18.0 miles west of Dayville, since Thursday 23 July.

Map of Oregon. The 0587 Shingle Fire burns 75 miles from Bend and 104 miles from Baker City, and 157 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 75 miles from Bend and 104 miles from Baker City.

2,500

acres burned so far — about 4 square miles

83

days burning so far

99%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The 0587 Shingle Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2,500 acres in Wheeler 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.

121people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

83 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 23 July at 10:59am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 1 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.469, -119.898lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.8 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 43% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. 0795 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 9.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. 0842 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 10.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. 0841 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 12.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 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.

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

    73,183 acres on record — 95% contained, 182 personnel assigned

    73,183 ac · 95% held · 182 crew

  3. Monday 24 August

    Revised to 2,500 acres

    2,500 ac · 95% held · 182 crew

  4. Sunday 13 September

    Grew to 73,183 acres — containment 99%, 121 personnel

    73,183 ac · 99% held · 121 crew

  5. Wednesday 16 September

    Revised to 2,500 acres

    2,500 ac · 99% held · 121 crew