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

74

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am 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 750 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 750 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

750hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:40am on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

0.1miles

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 4.8 miles, None in the last day.

2.7miles

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: 0494 Akawa Butte Fire 14.3 miles south-west at 27,491 acres, Beachcomb Fire 11.0 miles north-west at 13,648 acres and Bench Fire 6.5 miles west at 4,000 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 143 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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: 46°F, air at 76% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

Four days of record on a day-76 fire

The record here begins at 1:49pm on 27 Aug and runs to 2:41am on 14 Sep — 421 hours, 5 readings of heat. The fire is on day 76, so the first 72 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.

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, 143 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 4 days of record

  1. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    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
  2. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 67% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:10pm to 1:10pm
    • Spread 2.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  3. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    The fiercest day

    • 2 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 11.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:10pm to 1:10pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  4. Map for Mon 14 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon14 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 91% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 2:41am
    • Spread 2.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Saturday 1 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    1,163 acres on record — 98% contained, 16 personnel assigned

    1,163 ac · 98% held · 16 crew

  3. Monday 14 September

    Containment 100%

    1,163 ac · 100% held · 16 crew

100% 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 750 hours, and the record still lists it as active.