Awatchfire

Wasco County, Oregon

Grasshopper Fire

Burning 6.0 miles north-west of Sportsmans Park and 10.7 miles west of Wamic, since Thursday 23 July.

Map of Oregon. The Grasshopper Fire burns 59 miles from Portland and 77 miles from Salem, and 77 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 59 miles from Portland and 77 miles from Salem.

93,972

acres burned so far — about 147 square miles

83

days burning so far

98%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Grasshopper Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1038 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1038 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Grasshopper 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

1038hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:05am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

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

4.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Sportsmans Park 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 Wamic is 8.6 miles, None in the last day.

10.2miles

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

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 8:00am and 10:00am 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 14.5 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 82% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

11 days of record on a day-85 fire

The record here begins at 2:54am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:06am on 2 Sep — 264 hours, 143 readings of heat. The fire is on day 85, so the first 74 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 Grasshopper Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 91 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 11 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 70 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:54am to 9:40pm
    • Spread 10.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 14 heat readings
    • Energy 95% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:54am to 2:21pm
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  3. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 9 heat readings
    • Energy 59% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:34am to 3:56am
    • Spread 9.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Holding

    • 8 heat readings
    • Energy 22% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:02am to 3:38am
    • Spread 9.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 23 heat readings
    • Energy 3.1 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 2:08pm
    • Spread 9.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  6. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 8 heat readings
    • Energy 59% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:17am to 3:19am
    • Spread 9.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    Holding

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 44% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:00am to 2:06pm
    • Spread 2.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  8. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 80% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:09am to 3:09am
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:24am to 3:24am
    • Spread 2.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  10. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:26am to 3:26am
    • Spread 3.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  11. Map for Wed 2 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed2 Seplatest

    Flaring up

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 5.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 3:06am to 3:06am
    • Spread 3.3 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. Thursday 23 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    93,562 acres on record — 76% contained, 1303 personnel assigned

    93,562 ac · 76% held · 1303 crew

  3. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 93,693 acres — 1116 personnel

    93,693 ac · 76% held · 1116 crew

  4. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 93,744 acres — 1019 personnel

    93,744 ac · 76% held · 1019 crew

  5. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 93,794 acres — 905 personnel

    93,794 ac · 76% held · 905 crew

  6. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 93,806 acres — 825 personnel

    93,806 ac · 76% held · 825 crew

  7. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 93,841 acres — 809 personnel

    93,841 ac · 76% held · 809 crew

  8. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 93,886 acres — containment 81%, 762 personnel

    93,886 ac · 81% held · 762 crew

  9. Saturday 29 August

    Grew to 93,924 acres — containment 83%, 705 personnel

    93,924 ac · 83% held · 705 crew

  10. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 93,953 acres — 622 personnel

    93,953 ac · 83% held · 622 crew

  11. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 93,961 acres — 511 personnel

    93,961 ac · 83% held · 511 crew

  12. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 93,972 acres — 389 personnel

    93,972 ac · 83% held · 389 crew

  13. Wednesday 2 September

    Containment 84% — 393 personnel

    93,972 ac · 84% held · 393 crew

  14. Thursday 3 September

    Grew to 93,993 acres — 337 personnel

    93,993 ac · 84% held · 337 crew

  15. Saturday 5 September

    Containment 91% — 246 personnel

    93,993 ac · 91% held · 246 crew

  16. Sunday 6 September

    Revised to 93,990 acres — 241 personnel

    93,990 ac · 91% held · 241 crew

  17. Monday 7 September

    Containment 93% — 255 personnel

    93,990 ac · 93% held · 255 crew

  18. Wednesday 9 September

    Grew to 93,997 acres — containment 96%, 284 personnel

    93,997 ac · 96% held · 284 crew

  19. Thursday 10 September

    Grew to 93,999 acres — 322 personnel

    93,999 ac · 96% held · 322 crew

  20. Friday 11 September

    Revised to 93,998 acres — containment 97%, 296 personnel

    93,998 ac · 97% held · 296 crew

  21. Saturday 12 September

    Grew to 94,000 acres — 292 personnel

    94,000 ac · 97% held · 292 crew

  22. Sunday 13 September

    Grew to 94,003 acres — 282 personnel

    94,003 ac · 97% held · 282 crew

  23. Monday 14 September

    Revised to 93,982 acres — 278 personnel

    93,982 ac · 97% held · 278 crew

  24. Tuesday 15 September

    Revised to 93,974 acres — containment 98%, 214 personnel

    93,974 ac · 98% held · 214 crew

  25. Wednesday 16 September

    Grew to 93,996 acres — 206 personnel

    93,996 ac · 98% held · 206 crew

  26. Saturday 19 September

    Revised to 93,966 acres — 269 personnel

    93,966 ac · 98% held · 269 crew

  27. Monday 21 September

    Grew to 93,971 acres — 337 personnel

    93,971 ac · 98% held · 337 crew

  28. Tuesday 29 September

    Grew to 93,972 acres — 204 personnel

    93,972 ac · 98% held · 204 crew

98% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 204 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 93,972 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1038 hours, and the record still lists it as active.