Awatchfire

Grant County, Oregon

Battle Fire

Burning 16.0 miles west of Granite and 16.4 miles north-west of Greenhorn, since Saturday 5 September.

Map of Oregon. The Battle Fire burns 45 miles from Baker City and 139 miles from Bend, and 210 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 45 miles from Baker City and 139 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

39

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Battle Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Grant 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

39 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 5 September at 1:39pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

44.878, -118.731lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.4 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 40% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Case Ridge Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 11.8 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Packsaddle Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 13.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Buck Gulch Fire started on Wednesday 8 July, 14.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Salmon Fire started on Wednesday 8 July, 15.5 miles south-east, and has reached 1,433 acres with 11 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 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 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 5 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 5 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac