Awatchfire

Union County, Oregon

Camp 1 Fire

Burning 8.7 miles north-west of La Grande and 9.4 miles north-west of Island City, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Oregon. The Camp 1 Fire burns 48 miles from Baker City and 180 miles from Bend, and 238 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 48 miles from Baker City and 180 miles from Bend.

6

acres burned so far

54

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Camp 1 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 150 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 150 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Camp 1 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 Where another fire is recorded

150hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Friday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

9.7miles

is how close the heat has come to La Grande 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 Island City is 10.9 miles, None in the last day.

3.1miles

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

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Robbs Hill Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 4.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Tie Spring Fire started on Monday 12 October, 3.4 miles east, 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 10:00am and 1:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 143 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 10.5 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 41% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-55 fire

The record here begins at 2:01pm on 8 Oct and runs to 3:13am on 9 Oct — 13 hours, 8 readings of heat. The fire is on day 55, so the first 53 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 Camp 1 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 20 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

Thu 2:00pmFri 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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Thu 8 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu8 Oct

    First readings

    • 7 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:01pm to 3:08pm
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Fri 9 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri9 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 99% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:13am to 3:13am
    • Spread 2.9 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. Saturday 22 August

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    6 acres on record

    6 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 2 acres when it was first written down to 6 now. Nothing has looked at it for 150 hours, and the record still lists it as active.