Burning 9.1 miles north of Sumpter and 12.2 miles west of Haines, since Sunday 23 August.
The fire sits 19 miles from Baker City and 164 miles from Bend.
0
acres burned so far
53
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The May Flower Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1182 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 1182 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
1182hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Thursday, local time.
53% less
energy in the last 6 hours of the record
than in the 6 before them — the fire was
cooler when it was last seen.
8.1miles
is how close the heat has come to Sumpter 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 Haines is 12.8 miles, None in the last day.
1.4miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. North Pole Fire started 696 minutes before this one, 2.2 miles south, and has reached 310 acres with 81 people assigned. Summit Lake Fire started 660 minutes before this one, 1.0 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.
Three larger fires are burning outside this frame: McCully Fire 5.8 miles south-west at 13,604 acres, Anthony Fire 8.2 miles north at 2,584 acres and McCulley Fire 5.8 miles south-west at 1,202 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 12.8 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 9% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.
How it got here
Three days of record on a day-54 fire
The record here begins at 1:56am on 25 Aug and runs to 3:17am on 27 Aug — 49 hours, 40 readings of heat. The fire is on day 54, so the first 51 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.
The whole record, 19 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
Tue25 Aug
First readings
13 heat readings
Heat from 1:56am to 5:38am
Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn and morning
Wed26 Aug
The fiercest day
18 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 6.2 times the day before
Heat from 2:41am to 9:00pm
Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
Thu27 Auglatest
Cooling off
9 heat readings
Energy 98% down on the day before
Heat from 2:24am to 3:17am
Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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.
Sunday 23 August
First reported
Tuesday 25 August
0 acres on record
0 ac
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 1182 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
