Awatchfire

Grant County, Oregon

Big Baldy Fire

Burning 19.8 miles south of Dayville and 24.0 miles south-west of Mount Vernon, since Friday 18 September.

Map of Oregon. The Big Baldy Fire burns 91 miles from Baker City and 91 miles from Bend, and 182 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 91 miles from Baker City and 91 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

27

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Big Baldy 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

27 days

on record — first written down on Friday 18 September at 8:47am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.183, -119.472lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.6 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 38% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Mcmullen Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 2.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Jebrick Fire started 546 minutes after this one, 14.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. 0847 Fire started 544 minutes after this one, 15.5 miles north, and has reached 0 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.

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. Friday 18 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 18 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac