Awatchfire

Umatilla County, Oregon

Hagen Fire

Burning 10.6 miles south-east of Weston and 13.1 miles south-east of Athena, since Thursday 16 July.

Map of Oregon. The Hagen Fire burns 68 miles from Baker City and 187 miles from Bend, and 237 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 68 miles from Baker City and 187 miles from Bend.

60,645

acres burned so far — about 95 square miles

42

days burning so far

33%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The Hagen Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 10 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 10 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Hagen 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

10hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:20am on Friday, local time.

199% 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.

12.0miles

is how close the heat has come to Weston at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 14.3 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Athena is 14.4 miles, 16.2 in the last day.

8.2miles

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

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: North Cayuse Fire 10.3 miles west at 4,887 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 30 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

Two places are burning

7.8 miles south of the recorded point

15 readings of heat in the last day — 63% of everything the fire gave off in that time.

6.6 miles east of the recorded point

7 readings of heat in the last day — 37% of everything the fire gave off in that time.

Conditions measured 9.3 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 30% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

Seven days of record on a day-44 fire

The record here begins at 2:15am on 22 Aug and runs to 4:19am on 28 Aug — 146 hours, 172 readings of heat. The fire is on day 44, so the first 37 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 Hagen Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 51 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 7 days of record

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

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 5 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:15am to 1:42pm
    • Spread 8.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 37 heat readings
    • Energy 1.8 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:58am to 2:21pm
    • Spread 8.2 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

    Holding

    • 9 heat readings
    • Energy 43% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:15am to 4:05pm
    • Spread 8.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  4. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 39 heat readings
    • Energy 1.6 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 1:21pm
    • Spread 8.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 54 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 2.1 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 1:21pm
    • Spread 8.2 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

    • 4 heat readings
    • Energy 73% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:00am to 4:22pm
    • Spread 7.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  7. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Auglatest

    Flaring up

    • 24 heat readings
    • Energy 1.8 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 4:19am
    • Spread 8.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

33% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 1042 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 10 acres when it was first written down to 60,645 now. Nothing has looked at it for 10 hours, and the record still lists it as active.