Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

McCully Fire

Burning 6.9 miles east of Granite and 7.1 miles north-west of Sumpter, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Oregon. The McCully Fire burns 22 miles from Baker City and 159 miles from Bend, and 232 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 22 miles from Baker City and 159 miles from Bend.

13,604

acres burned so far — about 21 square miles

53

days burning so far

91%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The McCully Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1051 hours. What is burning has shifted 3.03 miles north-west over the last six hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1051 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the McCully 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 Where another fire is recorded

1051hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:30pm on Tuesday, local time.

74% 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 None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Sumpter is 4.5 miles, None in the last day.

3.9miles

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 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 15.7 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 9% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

11 days of record on a day-55 fire

The record here begins at 4:26pm on 22 Aug and runs to 2:31pm on 1 Sep — 238 hours, 2,192 readings of heat. The fire is on day 55, so the first 44 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 McCully Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 82 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 11 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

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

    Mon24 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 341 heat readings
    • Energy 90% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:39am to 4:05pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning and afternoon
  4. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 198 heat readings
    • Energy 61% down on 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
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 271 heat readings
    • 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
  6. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  7. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 125 heat readings
    • Energy 73% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 8:38pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and evening
  8. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    Holding

    • 95 heat readings
    • Energy 2% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:45am to 9:19pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  9. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 96 heat readings
    • Energy 2.8 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:02am to 9:57pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon, evening and night
  10. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 259 heat readings
    • Energy 3.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 9:00pm
    • Spread 3.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  11. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 104 heat readings
    • Energy 95% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:30am to 2:31pm
    • Spread 3.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon

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 22 August

    First reported at 30 acres

    30 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    200 acres on record — 0% contained, 29 personnel assigned

    200 ac · 0% held · 29 crew

  3. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 400 acres

    400 ac · 0% held · 29 crew

  4. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 1,202 acres — 92 personnel

    1,202 ac · 0% held · 92 crew

  5. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 4,315 acres — 180 personnel

    4,315 ac · 0% held · 180 crew

  6. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 5,971 acres — 476 personnel

    5,971 ac · 0% held · 476 crew

  7. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 8,305 acres — 507 personnel

    8,305 ac · 0% held · 507 crew

  8. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 8,872 acres — 660 personnel

    8,872 ac · 0% held · 660 crew

  9. Saturday 29 August

    Grew to 9,484 acres — 794 personnel

    9,484 ac · 0% held · 794 crew

  10. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 9,934 acres — containment 2%, 814 personnel

    9,934 ac · 2% held · 814 crew

  11. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 11,231 acres — containment 4%, 855 personnel

    11,231 ac · 4% held · 855 crew

  12. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 13,150 acres — 933 personnel

    13,150 ac · 4% held · 933 crew

  13. Wednesday 2 September

    Grew to 13,479 acres — containment 6%, 1005 personnel

    13,479 ac · 6% held · 1005 crew

  14. Thursday 3 September

    Containment 8% — 943 personnel

    13,479 ac · 8% held · 943 crew

  15. Friday 4 September

    Grew to 13,501 acres — containment 25%, 971 personnel

    13,501 ac · 25% held · 971 crew

  16. Saturday 5 September

    Grew to 13,564 acres — 860 personnel

    13,564 ac · 25% held · 860 crew

  17. Sunday 6 September

    Grew to 13,565 acres — containment 46%, 769 personnel

    13,565 ac · 46% held · 769 crew

  18. Monday 7 September

    Revised to 13,533 acres — containment 59%, 675 personnel

    13,533 ac · 59% held · 675 crew

  19. Tuesday 8 September

    Grew to 13,545 acres — 617 personnel

    13,545 ac · 59% held · 617 crew

  20. Wednesday 9 September

    Grew to 13,560 acres — 583 personnel

    13,560 ac · 59% held · 583 crew

  21. Thursday 10 September

    Grew to 13,561 acres — containment 61%, 570 personnel

    13,561 ac · 61% held · 570 crew

  22. Friday 11 September

    Grew to 13,598 acres — containment 65%, 483 personnel

    13,598 ac · 65% held · 483 crew

  23. Saturday 12 September

    Grew to 13,604 acres — containment 71%, 371 personnel

    13,604 ac · 71% held · 371 crew

  24. Sunday 13 September

    Containment 81% — 343 personnel

    13,604 ac · 81% held · 343 crew

  25. Monday 14 September

    Containment 87% — 263 personnel

    13,604 ac · 87% held · 263 crew

  26. Tuesday 15 September

    Containment 91% — 84 personnel

    13,604 ac · 91% held · 84 crew

91% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 84 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 30 acres when it was first written down to 13,604 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1051 hours, and the record still lists it as active.