Awatchfire

Yamhill County, Oregon

Fort Hill Fire

Burning 0.8 miles north-west of Willamina and 3.3 miles east of Fort Hill, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of Oregon. The Fort Hill Fire burns 26 miles from Salem and 52 miles from Portland, and 26 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 26 miles from Salem and 52 miles from Portland.

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acreage not yet reported

49

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Fort Hill Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 571 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 571 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Fort Hill 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

571hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:20pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

1.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Willamina 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 Fort Hill is 4.4 miles, None in the last day.

2.0miles

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. NonSTAT Rock Creek Rd Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 3.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Oak Fire started on Monday 12 October, 0.7 miles north-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 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 15.1 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 96% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-51 fire

The record here begins at 2:21pm on 21 Sep and runs to 2:21pm on 21 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 51, so the first 50 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 Fort Hill Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Mon 2:00pmMon 2:00pm

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 Mon 21 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon21 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:21pm to 2:21pm
    • Spread 2.0 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. Wednesday 26 August

    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 571 hours, and the record still lists it as active.