Awatchfire

Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska

Meyer Fire

Burning 3.2 miles north-west of Morrill and 4.4 miles east of Henry, since Sunday 4 October.

Map of Nebraska. The Meyer Fire burns .
Where the fire is in the state.

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acreage not yet reported

11

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Meyer Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 247 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 247 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Meyer 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

247hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50am on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

3.0miles

is how close the heat has come to Morrill 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 Henry is 4.4 miles, None in the last day.

0.4miles

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

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 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 17.6 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 74% humidity, a 18 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-12 fire

The record here begins at 10:03am on 4 Oct and runs to 2:52am on 5 Oct — 17 hours, 5 readings of heat. The fire is on day 12, so the first 10 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.

Animated map of the Meyer Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 23 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Sun 10:00amMon 2:00am

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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Sun 4 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun4 Oct

    First readings

    • 4 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 10:03am to 2:34pm
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the morning and afternoon
  2. Map for Mon 5 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon5 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 0.1 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.

  1. Sunday 4 October

    First reported

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 247 hours, and the record still lists it as active.