Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

North Pole Fire

Burning 6.9 miles north of Sumpter and 11.3 miles east of Granite, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Oregon. The North Pole Fire burns 18 miles from Baker City and 163 miles from Bend, and 236 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 18 miles from Baker City and 163 miles from Bend.

310

acres burned so far — about 0.5 square miles

5

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The North Pole Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 10 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 10 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the North Pole 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

10hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:20am on Friday, local time.

439% more

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

5.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Sumpter at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 6.1 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Granite is 9.1 miles, 9.1 in the last day.

2.7miles

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

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. May Flower Fire started 696 minutes after this one, 2.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. McCulley Fire started 23 minutes before this one, 4.4 miles west, and has reached 1,202 acres with 92 people assigned. McCully Fire started 24 minutes before this one, 4.4 miles west, and has reached 8,305 acres with 507 people assigned. Summit Lake Fire started 36 minutes after this one, 2.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Olive Butte Fire 14.4 miles south-west at 3,092 acres and Anthony Fire 10.2 miles north at 2,584 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

0.8 miles west of the recorded point

57 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 12.2 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 34% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Seven days of record on a day-7 fire

The record here begins at 9:40pm on 22 Aug and runs to 4:19am on 28 Aug — 127 hours, 788 readings of heat.

Animated map of the North Pole Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 45 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 7 days of record

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

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 9:40pm to 9:40pm
    • Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the night
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 99 heat readings
    • Energy 55.0 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

    Holding

    • 184 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 1.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:39am to 4:05pm
    • Spread 2.5 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

    • 164 heat readings
    • Energy 77% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 8:21pm
    • Spread 2.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and evening
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 178 heat readings
    • Energy 4.9 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 9:00pm
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  6. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 106 heat readings
    • Energy 94% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:24am to 9:38pm
    • Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
  7. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 56 heat readings
    • Energy 59% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 4:19am
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 81 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 50 acres when it was first written down to 310 now. Nothing has looked at it for 10 hours, and the record still lists it as active.