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.
8,305
acres burned so far — about 13 square miles
5
days burning so far
0%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 1:52pm today
The McCully Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 10 hours ago. What is burning has shifted 0.89 miles east over the last six hours — away from Granite.
No fresh look at this fire for 10 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
10hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:20am on Friday, local time.
69% 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.
5.1miles
is how close the heat has come to Granite at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 5.1 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Sumpter is 5.0 miles, 5.4 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.
3.0miles
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. McCulley Fire started 1 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 1,202 acres with 92 people assigned. North Pole Fire started 24 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.
One place is burning
0.4 miles west of the recorded point
137 readings of heat in the last day —
all of the heat seen in that time.
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
Five days of record on a day-7 fire
The record here begins at 1:40pm on 24 Aug and runs to 4:19am on 28 Aug — 87 hours, 806 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, 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.
The whole record, 32 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 5 days of record
Mon24 Aug
First readings
16 heat readings
Heat from 1:40pm to 4:05pm
Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Tue25 Aug
Holding
198 heat readings
Energy 1.3 times the day before
Heat from 1:56am to 8:21pm
Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and evening
Wed26 Aug
The fiercest day
271 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 8.8 times the day before
Heat from 1:56am to 9:00pm
Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
Thu27 Aug
Cooling off
209 heat readings
Energy 59% down on the day before
Heat from 2:24am to 9:38pm
Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
Fri28 Auglatest
Cooling off
112 heat readings
Energy 87% down on the day before
Heat from 2:05am to 4:19am
Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 507 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 30 acres when it was first written down to 8,305 now. Nothing has looked at it for 10 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
