Awatchfire

Marion County, Oregon

Evans Creek 31 Fire

Burning 2.1 miles east of Silverton and 4.3 miles south-west of Scotts Mills, since Monday 7 September.

Map of Oregon. The Evans Creek 31 Fire burns 15 miles from Salem and 37 miles from Portland, and 15 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 15 miles from Salem and 37 miles from Portland.

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acreage not yet reported

37

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Evans Creek 31 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 834 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 834 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Evans Creek 31 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

834hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:20pm on Thursday, local time.

764% more

energy in the last 1 hours of the record than in the 1 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

3.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Silverton 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 Scotts Mills is 4.0 miles, None in the last day.

2.2miles

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. Edison Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 17.0 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 48% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-39 fire

The record here begins at 1:21pm on 10 Sep and runs to 3:22pm on 10 Sep — 2 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 39, so the first 38 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 Evans Creek 31 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 9 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 1:00pmThu 3:00pm

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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Thu 10 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu10 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 4 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:21pm to 3:22pm
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the 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.

  1. Monday 7 September

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 834 hours, and the record still lists it as active.