Awatchfire

Union County, Oregon

High Ridge Fire

Burning 12.0 miles north-west of Elgin and 14.1 miles north of Summerville, since Saturday 31 October.

Map of Oregon. The High Ridge Fire burns 64 miles from Baker City and 193 miles from Bend, and 245 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 64 miles from Baker City and 193 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 1:35pm today

The High Ridge Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Union County, Oregon. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 31 October at 11:14am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

45.681, -118.104lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.9 miles from the fire: 46°F, air at 69% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Middle Ridge Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 8.1 miles south-east, and has reached 138 acres with 52 people assigned. Hagen Fire started on Thursday 16 July, 8.1 miles west, and has reached 61,380 acres with 188 people assigned. Balloon Tree Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 8.8 miles north-east, and has reached 1 acres. Moon Canyon Fire started on Monday 7 September, 9.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Cone Fire started on Monday 28 September, 10.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Frizzel Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 14.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 261 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

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. Saturday 31 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 31 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac