Awatchfire

Malheur County, Oregon

Mitchell Springs Fire

Burning 11.2 miles north-west of McDermitt and 15.6 miles north-west of Fort McDermitt, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Oregon. The Mitchell Springs Fire burns 185 miles from Baker City and 219 miles from Bend, and 323 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 185 miles from Baker City and 219 miles from Bend.

5

acres burned so far

51

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:20am today

The Mitchell Springs Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 5 acres in Malheur 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

51 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 12:21pm local time, starting at 5 acres.

42.092, -117.891lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Twomile Creek Fire started 224 minutes before this one, 11.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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.

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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported at 5 acres

    5 ac
  2. Friday 25 September

    5 acres on record

    5 ac