Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

Manning Creek Fire

Burning 18.3 miles north-west of Huntington and 19.1 miles south-west of Richland, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Oregon. The Manning Creek Fire burns 23 miles from Baker City and 194 miles from Bend, and 274 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 23 miles from Baker City and 194 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

4

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Manning Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 37 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 37 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Manning Creek 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

37hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:00am on Thursday, local time.

0readings

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

15.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Huntington 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 Richland is 20.0 miles, None in the last day.

3.1miles

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

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Fox Fire 12.4 miles east at 78,903 acres and Powder River Fire 14.8 miles north-east at 21,088 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground ten times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 6 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: 82°F, air at 20% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

Three days of record on a day-5 fire

The record here begins at 2:34am on 24 Aug and runs to 3:00am on 27 Aug — 72 hours, 8 readings of heat. The fire is on day 5, so the first 2 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 Manning Creek Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 27 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 3 days of record

  1. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:34am to 3:56am
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Holding

    • 4 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:15am to 3:56am
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:00am to 3:00am
    • Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 37 hours, and the record still lists it as active.