Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

Bob Creek Fire

Burning 13.6 miles north-east of Halfway and 20.8 miles north-east of Richland, since Saturday 25 July.

Map of Oregon. The Bob Creek Fire burns 49 miles from Baker City and 227 miles from Bend, and 300 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 49 miles from Baker City and 227 miles from Bend.

851

acres burned so far — about 1.3 square miles

81

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Bob Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 851 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

1people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

81 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 25 July at 3:48pm local time, starting at 10 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.996, -116.887lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.2 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 55% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

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 25 July

    First reported at 10 acres

    10 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    851 acres on record — 100% contained, 1 personnel assigned

    851 ac · 100% held · 1 crew