Awatchfire

Jefferson County, Oregon

0861 Fire

Burning 5.7 miles east of Metolius and 7.0 miles south-east of Madras, since Saturday 26 September.

Map of Oregon. The 0861 Fire burns 39 miles from Bend and 99 miles from Salem, and 99 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 39 miles from Bend and 99 miles from Salem.

0

acres burned so far

18

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The 0861 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Jefferson 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

18 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 26 September at 2:40pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.593, -121.059lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.5 miles from the fire: 46°F, air at 76% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. 0433 Brewer Fire started on Wednesday 15 July, 7.5 miles east, and has reached 70,821 acres with 1111 people assigned. 0658 Round Butte Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 8.2 miles west, and has reached 1,163 acres with 16 people assigned. 0152 (Jeffco Assist) Fire started on Wednesday 6 May, 11.0 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. River Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 14.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 0579 Ten Mile Fire started on Thursday 23 July, 14.2 miles north, and has reached 4,834 acres with 65 people assigned. Bench Fire started on Thursday 23 July, 14.6 miles west, and has reached 4,000 acres with 146 people assigned. 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 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.

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. Saturday 26 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 26 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac