Burning 6.9 miles east of Granite and 7.1 miles north-west of Sumpter, since Saturday 22 August.
The fire sits 22 miles from Baker City and 159 miles from Bend.
1,202
acres burned so far — about 2 square miles
5
days burning so far
0%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 1:52pm today
The McCulley Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 95 hours. There is no clear movement in the last six hours: the middle of the heat has shifted less than the width of the ground a single reading covers.
No fresh look at this fire for 95 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
95hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45pm on Monday, local time.
42% more
energy in the last 6 hours of the record
than in the 6 before them — the fire was
hotter when it was last seen.
5.8miles
is how close the heat has come to Granite 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 Sumpter is 5.4 miles, None in the last day.
2.7miles
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. McCully Fire started 1 minutes before this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 8,305 acres with 507 people assigned. North Pole Fire started 23 minutes after this one, 4.4 miles east, and has reached 310 acres with 81 people assigned. 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: Olive Butte Fire 10.2 miles south-west at 3,092 acres, Anthony Fire 12.0 miles north at 2,584 acres and Salmon Fire 13.6 miles south-west at 1,433 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 42 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 15.7 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 34% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.
How it got here
Three days of record on a day-7 fire
The record here begins at 4:26pm on 22 Aug and runs to 2:46pm on 24 Aug — 46 hours, 819 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 4 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 18 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Sat 4:00pmMon 2:00pm
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 3 days of record
Sat22 Aug
First readings
6 heat readings
Heat from 4:26pm to 9:40pm
Spread 1.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon and night
Sun23 Aug
The fiercest day
488 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 8.4 times the day before
Heat from 1:58am to 8:42pm
Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and evening
Mon24 Auglatest
Cooling off
325 heat readings
Energy 93% down on the day before
Heat from 1:39am to 2:46pm
Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, morning and afternoon
None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 92 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 30 acres when it was first written down to 1,202 now. Nothing has looked at it for 95 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
