Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

Lime Fire

Burning 5.9 miles north-west of Huntington and 15.1 miles north-east of Brogan, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of Oregon. The Lime Fire burns 35 miles from Baker City and 198 miles from Bend, and 282 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 35 miles from Baker City and 198 miles from Bend.

6

acres burned so far

49

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Lime Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 6 acres in Baker 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

49 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 26 August at 2:52pm local time, starting at 3 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.421, -117.334lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.8 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 44% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-west.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Vad Inc 582 Fire started 15 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Benson Fire started on Friday 2 October, 6.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Pipe Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 8.1 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Fox Fire started on Thursday 23 July, 9.3 miles north-east, and has reached 78,903 acres with 6 people assigned. Manning Creek Fire started on Monday 24 August, 12.5 miles north-west, 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 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 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. Wednesday 26 August

    First reported at 3 acres

    3 ac

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    3 acres on record

    3 ac

  3. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 6 acres

    6 ac