Awatchfire

Deschutes County, Oregon

Pit Fire

Burning 2.1 miles south-east of La Pine and 11.8 miles south of Three Rivers, since Sunday 1 November.

Map of Oregon. The Pit Fire burns 28 miles from Bend and 87 miles from Eugene, and 117 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 28 miles from Bend and 87 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 5:01pm today

The Pit Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Deschutes 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.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Sunday 1 November at 2:36pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.666, -121.454lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 14.3 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 67% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. 0860 Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 6.7 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 0884 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 9.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. 0878 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 12.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 0794 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 13.5 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 290 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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. Sunday 1 November

    First reported

  2. Sunday 1 November

    0 acres on record

    0 ac