Awatchfire

Crook County, Oregon

0903 Gray Creek Fire

Burning 22.8 miles south of Mitchell and 23.4 miles east of Juniper Canyon, since Wednesday 21 October.

Map of Oregon. The 0903 Gray Creek Fire burns 53 miles from Bend and 126 miles from Baker City, and 143 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 53 miles from Bend and 126 miles from Baker City.

3

acres burned so far

3

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 6:17pm today

The 0903 Gray Creek Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 4 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the 0903 Gray Creek 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

4hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:15pm on Wednesday, local time.

4readings

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

22.8miles

is how close the heat has come to Mitchell at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 22.8 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Juniper Canyon is 23.3 miles, 23.3 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.

0.2miles

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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 26 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

One place is burning

At the point on the record

4 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 9.8 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 46% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 1:53pm on 21 Oct and runs to 2:14pm on 21 Oct — 0 hours, 4 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the 0903 Gray Creek 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 21 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed21 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 4 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:53pm to 2:14pm
    • Spread 0.2 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. Wednesday 21 October

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 21 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Wednesday 21 October

    Grew to 3 acres

    3 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 3 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.