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.
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Tuesday 29 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
15
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Butte Main Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Clackamas 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.
Human
is the cause on the official record.
15 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 29 September at 3:36pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
44.926, -122.466lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.3 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 48% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the east.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Groshong Fire started on Monday 7 September, 11.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dickie Prairie Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 11.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Section 12 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 12.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Etzel Road Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 13.5 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Evans Creek 31 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 14.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 143 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.