Awatchfire

Wallowa County, Oregon

Paradise Fire

Burning 13.0 miles south-east of Dixie and 16.1 miles east of Walla Walla East, since Thursday 16 July.

Map of Oregon. The Paradise Fire burns 85 miles from Baker City and 211 miles from Bend, and 256 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 85 miles from Baker City and 211 miles from Bend.

9,656

acres burned so far — about 15 square miles

90

days burning so far

86%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Paradise Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1051 hours.

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

Shaded relief map of the Paradise 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

1051hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:55pm on Tuesday, local time.

95% 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.

11.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Dixie 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 Walla Walla East is 13.1 miles, None in the last day.

3.3miles

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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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.

Nothing close enough to the fire has reported the conditions on the ground.

How it got here

11 days of record on a day-92 fire

The record here begins at 2:15am on 22 Aug and runs to 1:55pm on 1 Sep — 252 hours, 579 readings of heat. The fire is on day 92, so the first 81 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 Paradise Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 86 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

    • 58 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:15am to 9:40pm
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 153 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 2.7 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:58am to 8:42pm
    • Spread 3.1 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

    • 91 heat readings
    • Energy 69% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:37am to 1:59pm
    • Spread 3.1 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

    Flaring up

    • 114 heat readings
    • Energy 3.1 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 8:21pm
    • Spread 3.1 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

    Cooling off

    • 75 heat readings
    • Energy 84% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 9:00pm
    • Spread 3.2 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

    • 5 heat readings
    • Energy 98% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:00am to 3:17am
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 14 heat readings
    • Energy 3.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 4:19am
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Aug

    Holding

    • 13 heat readings
    • Energy 13% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:39am to 4:02am
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Holding

    • 6 heat readings
    • Energy 38% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:09am to 4:02am
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  10. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 16 heat readings
    • Energy 3.4 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 1:27pm
    • Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  11. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Seplatest

    Flaring up

    • 34 heat readings
    • Energy 3.7 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:43am to 1:55pm
    • Spread 3.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning 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. Thursday 16 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    7,994 acres on record — 0% contained, 309 personnel assigned

    7,994 ac · 0% held · 309 crew

  3. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 8,213 acres — 369 personnel

    8,213 ac · 0% held · 369 crew

  4. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 8,633 acres

    8,633 ac · 0% held · 369 crew

  5. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 9,027 acres — containment 13%, 429 personnel

    9,027 ac · 13% held · 429 crew

  6. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 9,272 acres — 463 personnel

    9,272 ac · 13% held · 463 crew

  7. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 9,324 acres — containment 15%, 500 personnel

    9,324 ac · 15% held · 500 crew

  8. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 9,329 acres — 506 personnel

    9,329 ac · 15% held · 506 crew

  9. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 9,466 acres — 438 personnel

    9,466 ac · 15% held · 438 crew

  10. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 9,593 acres — containment 22%, 373 personnel

    9,593 ac · 22% held · 373 crew

  11. Wednesday 2 September

    Grew to 9,639 acres

    9,639 ac · 22% held · 373 crew

  12. Saturday 5 September

    Grew to 9,646 acres — containment 26%, 906 personnel

    9,646 ac · 26% held · 906 crew

  13. Sunday 6 September

    Containment 28%

    9,646 ac · 28% held · 906 crew

  14. Tuesday 8 September

    Grew to 9,654 acres — 961 personnel

    9,654 ac · 28% held · 961 crew

  15. Wednesday 9 September

    Grew to 9,655 acres — 911 personnel

    9,655 ac · 28% held · 911 crew

  16. Thursday 10 September

    Grew to 9,656 acres — 886 personnel

    9,656 ac · 28% held · 886 crew

  17. Saturday 12 September

    Containment 42% — 764 personnel

    9,656 ac · 42% held · 764 crew

  18. Sunday 13 September

    Containment 49% — 728 personnel

    9,656 ac · 49% held · 728 crew

  19. Monday 14 September

    Containment 86% — 678 personnel

    9,656 ac · 86% held · 678 crew

86% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 678 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 9,656 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1051 hours, and the record still lists it as active.