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Harney County, Oregon

Bald Mountain Fire

Burning 29.7 miles south of Crane, since Thursday 23 July.

Map of Oregon. The Bald Mountain Fire burns 127 miles from Baker City and 160 miles from Bend, and 262 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 127 miles from Baker City and 160 miles from Bend.

76,443

acres burned so far — about 119 square miles

36

days burning so far

99%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Bald Mountain Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 76,443 acres in Harney 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.

99% held

99% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

32people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

36 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 23 July at 4:40pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 1 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

42.996, -118.474lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.