Awatchfire

Lake County, Oregon

354 Fire

Burning 10.8 miles west of Silver Lake and 27.5 miles east of Beaver Marsh, since Thursday 17 September.

Map of Oregon. The 354 Fire burns 66 miles from Bend and 96 miles from Medford, and 153 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 66 miles from Bend and 96 miles from Medford.

0

acres burned so far

27

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The 354 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 318 hours. There is no clear movement in the last six hours: the middle of the heat has shifted less than the width of the ground a single reading covers.

No fresh look at this fire for 318 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 354 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

318hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50am on Friday, local time.

95% less

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

10.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Silver Lake 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 Beaver Marsh is 28.1 miles, None in the last day.

2.3miles

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

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 11.8 miles from the fire: 37°F, air at 77% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-29 fire

The record here begins at 12:51pm on 1 Oct and runs to 2:49am on 2 Oct — 14 hours, 28 readings of heat. The fire is on day 29, 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 354 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 21 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 12:00pmFri 2:00am

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 2 days of record

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

    Thu1 Oct

    First readings

    • 25 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 12:51pm to 3:35pm
    • Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Fri 2 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri2 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 99% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 2:49am
    • Spread 2.2 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. Thursday 17 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 17 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 318 hours, and the record still lists it as active.