Awatchfire

Grant County, Oregon

Buck Gulch Fire

Burning 2.6 miles north of Greenhorn and 5.7 miles south-west of Granite, since Wednesday 8 July.

Map of Oregon. The Buck Gulch Fire burns 33 miles from Baker City and 147 miles from Bend, and 222 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 33 miles from Baker City and 147 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

98

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Buck Gulch 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.

98 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 8 July at 12:36pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

44.746, -118.493lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.3 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 67% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Olive Butte Fire started 236 minutes before this one, 2.0 miles east, and has reached 3,092 acres. Salmon Fire started 740 minutes before this one, 2.2 miles south, and has reached 1,433 acres with 11 people assigned. Gimlet Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 10.3 miles east, and has reached 1 acres. McCulley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 11.9 miles north-east, and has reached 1,202 acres with 92 people assigned. McCully Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 11.9 miles north-east, and has reached 13,604 acres with 84 people assigned. Battle Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 14.8 miles north-west, 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. Wednesday 8 July

    First reported

  2. Friday 18 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac