Awatchfire

Jefferson County, Oregon

0658 Round Butte Fire

Burning 2.6 miles west of Metolius and 5.3 miles north of Culver, since Saturday 1 August.

Map of Oregon. The 0658 Round Butte Fire burns 38 miles from Bend and 91 miles from Salem, and 91 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 38 miles from Bend and 91 miles from Salem.

1,163

acres burned so far — about 2 square miles

26

days burning so far

98%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The 0658 Round Butte Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 24 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 24 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 0658 Round Butte 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

24hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:50pm on Thursday, local time.

0readings

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

0.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Metolius 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 Culver is 5.3 miles, None in the last day.

2.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Three larger fires are burning outside this frame: Bench Fire 6.5 miles west at 67,071 acres, 0494 Akawa Butte Fire 14.3 miles south-west at 27,491 acres and Beachcomb Fire 11.0 miles north-west at 13,648 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 19 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 11.4 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 28% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-28 fire

The record here begins at 1:49pm on 27 Aug and runs to 1:49pm on 27 Aug — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 28, so the first 27 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 0658 Round Butte 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

Thu 1:00pmThu 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 Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:49pm to 1:49pm
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

98% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 16 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 1,163 now. Nothing has looked at it for 24 hours, and the record still lists it as active.