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.

61,380

acres burned so far — about 96 square miles

90

days burning so far

99%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Hagen Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1049 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1049 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

1049hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:15pm on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

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

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 None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Athena is 14.4 miles, None in the last day.

8.3miles

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 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 9.3 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 41% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

11 days of record on a day-92 fire

The record here begins at 2:15am on 22 Aug and runs to 4:14pm on 1 Sep — 254 hours, 338 readings of heat. The fire is on day 92, so the first 81 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, 87 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

    • 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

    Flaring up

    • 54 heat readings
    • 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 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 26 heat readings
    • Energy 2.1 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 2:06pm
    • Spread 8.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  8. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    Holding

    • 13 heat readings
    • Energy 6% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:45am to 4:02am
    • Spread 8.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Holding

    • 7 heat readings
    • Energy 33% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:22am to 2:31pm
    • Spread 8.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  10. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 86 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 22.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 9:00pm
    • Spread 8.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  11. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 58 heat readings
    • Energy 79% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:30am to 4:14pm
    • Spread 8.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and 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. Thursday 16 July

    First reported at 10 acres

    10 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    59,817 acres on record — 19% contained, 1070 personnel assigned

    59,817 ac · 19% held · 1070 crew

  3. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 59,939 acres — containment 28%, 1150 personnel

    59,939 ac · 28% held · 1150 crew

  4. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 60,146 acres — containment 33%, 1120 personnel

    60,146 ac · 33% held · 1120 crew

  5. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 60,372 acres — 1029 personnel

    60,372 ac · 33% held · 1029 crew

  6. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 60,645 acres — 1042 personnel

    60,645 ac · 33% held · 1042 crew

  7. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 60,737 acres — containment 35%, 691 personnel

    60,737 ac · 35% held · 691 crew

  8. Saturday 29 August

    Grew to 60,861 acres — 827 personnel

    60,861 ac · 35% held · 827 crew

  9. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 60,975 acres — containment 45%, 879 personnel

    60,975 ac · 45% held · 879 crew

  10. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 61,125 acres — containment 50%, 859 personnel

    61,125 ac · 50% held · 859 crew

  11. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 61,305 acres — containment 53%

    61,305 ac · 53% held · 859 crew

  12. Wednesday 2 September

    Grew to 61,408 acres — containment 54%, 787 personnel

    61,408 ac · 54% held · 787 crew

  13. Friday 4 September

    Containment 55% — 785 personnel

    61,408 ac · 55% held · 785 crew

  14. Saturday 5 September

    Revised to 61,396 acres — containment 56%

    61,396 ac · 56% held · 785 crew

  15. Monday 7 September

    Revised to 61,379 acres — containment 60%

    61,379 ac · 60% held · 785 crew

  16. Tuesday 8 September

    Grew to 61,385 acres

    61,385 ac · 60% held · 785 crew

  17. Thursday 10 September

    Containment 63%

    61,385 ac · 63% held · 785 crew

  18. Friday 11 September

    Containment 66%

    61,385 ac · 66% held · 785 crew

  19. Saturday 12 September

    Grew to 61,386 acres — containment 70%

    61,386 ac · 70% held · 785 crew

  20. Sunday 13 September

    Revised to 61,381 acres — containment 82%

    61,381 ac · 82% held · 785 crew

  21. Monday 14 September

    Containment 87%

    61,381 ac · 87% held · 785 crew

  22. Thursday 17 September

    Grew to 61,382 acres — 544 personnel

    61,382 ac · 87% held · 544 crew

  23. Saturday 19 September

    Containment 89% — 580 personnel

    61,382 ac · 89% held · 580 crew

  24. Sunday 20 September

    Revised to 61,379 acres — 522 personnel

    61,379 ac · 89% held · 522 crew

  25. Monday 21 September

    Containment 91% — 436 personnel

    61,379 ac · 91% held · 436 crew

  26. Tuesday 22 September

    Containment 93% — 405 personnel

    61,379 ac · 93% held · 405 crew

  27. Wednesday 23 September

    Grew to 61,380 acres — containment 95%, 361 personnel

    61,380 ac · 95% held · 361 crew

  28. Thursday 24 September

    Containment 97% — 315 personnel

    61,380 ac · 97% held · 315 crew

  29. Monday 28 September

    Containment 99% — 188 personnel

    61,380 ac · 99% held · 188 crew

99% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 188 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 10 acres when it was first written down to 61,380 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1049 hours, and the record still lists it as active.