Awatchfire

Harney County, Oregon

Magpie Fire

Burning 17.5 miles east of Seneca and 28.3 miles south-east of Canyon City, since Saturday 24 October.

Map of Oregon. The Magpie Fire burns 64 miles from Baker City and 132 miles from Bend, and 224 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 64 miles from Baker City and 132 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

5

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:56am today

The Magpie Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Harney 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.

5 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 24 October at 6:14am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.046, -118.647lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.4 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 74% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground nine times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 90 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 24 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 24 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac