Burning 3.0 miles north of Porcupine and 10.0 miles north-east of Manderson-White Horse Creek, since Wednesday 12 August.
Where the fire is in the state.
64
acres burned so far
63
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 10:09am today
The Candle Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 956 hours. What is burning has shifted 0.84 miles south-west over the last six hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 956 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
956hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:40pm on Saturday, local time.
2,558% more
energy in the last 6 hours of the record
than in the 6 before them — the fire was
hotter when it was last seen.
1.9miles
is how close the heat has come to Porcupine 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 Manderson-White Horse Creek is 8.6 miles, None in the last day.
1.4miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Event Fire started on Friday 4 September, 1.4 miles north-east, and has reached 230 acres. Needles Fire started on Friday 4 September, 0.7 miles south-east, and has reached 6,018 acres with 14 people assigned. Phahin Fire started 895 minutes before this one, 2.6 miles south, and has reached 26 acres. Rancher Fire started 1005 minutes before this one, 0.9 miles north-west, and has reached 504 acres with 2 people assigned. 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 121 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 3.0 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 81% humidity, a 22 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-65 fire
The record here begins at 1:57pm on 4 Sep and runs to 1:38pm on 5 Sep — 24 hours, 69 readings of heat. The fire is on day 65, so the first 63 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.
The whole record, 31 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
Fri 1:00pmSat 1:00pm
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
Fri4 Sep
First readings
24 heat readings
Heat from 1:57pm to 9:17pm
Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon and night
Sat5 Seplatest
Today so far
45 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 17% down on the day before
Heat from 2:13am to 1:38pm
Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, morning and afternoon
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.
Wednesday 12 August
First reported
Sunday 23 August
64 acres on record
64 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It stands at 64 acres on the latest record. Nothing has looked at it for 956 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
