Baker County, Oregon
Burning 1.6 miles south-west of Huntington and 13.0 miles north-east of Brogan, since Friday 2 October.
0
acres burned so far
13
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Benson Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Baker 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.
13 days
on record — first written down on Friday 2 October at 9:07am local time, starting at 0 acres.
44.329, -117.281lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.5 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 53% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Vad Inc 582 Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 6.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Lime Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 6.9 miles north, and has reached 6 acres. Wheel Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 9.7 miles south-east, and has reached 119 acres. Fox Fire started on Thursday 23 July, 13.9 miles north, and has reached 78,903 acres with 6 people assigned. Mm 364 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 14.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Pipe Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 14.9 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. 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.
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.
Friday 2 October
First reported
Friday 2 October
0 acres on record
0 ac