Awatchfire

Wallowa County, Oregon

Burnt Creek Fire

Burning 19.1 miles north-east of Wallowa and 21.2 miles north-east of Lostine, since Friday 17 July.

Map of Oregon. The Burnt Creek Fire burns 74 miles from Baker City and 231 miles from Bend, and 286 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 74 miles from Baker City and 231 miles from Bend.

4,169

acres burned so far — about 7 square miles

89

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Burnt Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 582 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 582 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Burnt Creek Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

582hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:30am on Monday, local time.

81% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

19.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Wallowa at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Lostine is 21.7 miles, None in the last day.

0.9miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 17 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 6.4 miles from the fire: 37°F, air at 89% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-91 fire

The record here begins at 2:54am on 21 Sep and runs to 3:32am on 21 Sep — 1 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 91, so the first 90 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Burnt Creek Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Mon 2:00amMon 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Mon 21 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon21 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:54am to 3:32am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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 17 July

    First reported at 5 acres

    5 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    4,169 acres on record — 95% contained, 8 personnel assigned

    4,169 ac · 95% held · 8 crew

  3. Wednesday 2 September

    Containment 100%

    4,169 ac · 100% held · 8 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 8 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 5 acres when it was first written down to 4,169 now. Nothing has looked at it for 582 hours, and the record still lists it as active.