Awatchfire

Wallowa County, Oregon

Apple Fire

Burning 13.8 miles south-west of Anatone and 28.1 miles south of Asotin, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Oregon. The Apple Fire burns 86 miles from Baker City and 237 miles from Bend, and 289 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 86 miles from Baker City and 237 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

3

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Apple Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 62 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 62 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Apple 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

62hours

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

0readings

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

13.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Anatone 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 Asotin is 28.1 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

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

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Burnt Creek Fire 12.9 miles south at 4,169 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 15 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 8 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 18.0 miles from the fire: 82°F, air at 22% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-4 fire

The record here begins at 1:56am on 25 Aug and runs to 2:41am on 26 Aug — 25 hours, 7 readings of heat. The fire is on day 4, so the first 2 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 Apple Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 32 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

Tue 1:00amWed 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 Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    First readings

    • 6 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 1:56am to 1:42pm
    • Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  2. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 2:41am
    • Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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 62 hours, and the record still lists it as active.