Awatchfire

Umatilla County, Oregon

Eagle Creek Fire

Burning 3.9 miles south of Weston and 4.4 miles south-east of Athena, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Oregon. The Eagle Creek Fire burns 74 miles from Baker City and 183 miles from Bend, and 230 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 74 miles from Baker City and 183 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Eagle Creek Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 6 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Eagle 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 Where another fire is recorded

6hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:00am on Thursday, local time.

1readings

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

5.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Weston at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 5.3 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Athena is 4.5 miles, 4.6 in the last day.

2.1miles

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

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Wildhorse Road Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 1.3 miles north-west, and has reached 25 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Hagen Fire 9.2 miles south-east at 61,380 acres and North Cayuse Fire 5.7 miles south at 4,887 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm 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 16.3 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 41% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Three days of record on a day-52 fire

The record here begins at 1:58am on 10 Oct and runs to 3:00am on 15 Oct — 121 hours, 19 readings of heat. The fire is on day 52, so the first 49 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.

Animated map of the Eagle Creek Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 43 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 3 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 10 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat10 Oct

    First readings

    • 11 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 1:58am to 1:23pm
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  2. Map for Sun 11 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun11 Oct

    Cooling off

    • 7 heat readings
    • Energy 66% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:37am to 4:15am
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:00am to 3:00am
    • Spread 1.9 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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.