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.

9,272

acres burned so far — about 14 square miles

43

days burning so far

13%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The Paradise 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 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

10hours

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

14readings

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

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 13.4 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Walla Walla East is 13.1 miles, 16.4 in the last day.

3.2miles

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 35 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

One place is burning

2.4 miles south of the recorded point

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

Conditions measured 1.8 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 39% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

Seven days of record on a day-44 fire

The record here begins at 2:15am on 22 Aug and runs to 4:19am on 28 Aug — 146 hours, 510 readings of heat. The fire is on day 44, so the first 37 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, 51 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

    • 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 Auglatest

    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

13% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 463 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 9,272 now. Nothing has looked at it for 10 hours, and the record still lists it as active.