Awatchfire

Clackamas County, Oregon

Mitchell Fire

Burning 12.8 miles south of Mount Hood Villages and 13.0 miles south-west of Rhododendron, since Sunday 9 August.

Map of Oregon. The Mitchell Fire burns 43 miles from Portland and 54 miles from Salem, and 54 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 43 miles from Portland and 54 miles from Salem.

16

acres burned so far

19

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Mitchell Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 16 acres in Clackamas County, Oregon. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

19 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 9 August at 1:40pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

45.139, -121.970lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.