Awatchfire

Deschutes County, Oregon

0794 Fire

Burning 3.4 miles west of Three Rivers and 5.1 miles south-west of Sunriver, since Friday 4 September.

Map of Oregon. The 0794 Fire burns 18 miles from Bend and 80 miles from Eugene, and 104 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 18 miles from Bend and 80 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

40

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The 0794 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 18 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 18 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 0794 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

18hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45pm on Wednesday, local time.

1,010% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

5.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Three Rivers at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 5.9 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Sunriver is 5.8 miles, 5.8 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

3.1miles

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

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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 10.5 miles from the fire: 46°F, air at 67% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-42 fire

The record here begins at 1:49pm on 14 Oct and runs to 2:44pm on 14 Oct — 1 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 42, so the first 41 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 0794 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Wed 1:00pmWed 2:00pm

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 Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:49pm to 2:44pm
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Friday 4 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 4 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 18 hours, and the record still lists it as active.