Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

Powder River Fire

Burning 5.4 miles west of Richland and 11.8 miles south-west of Halfway, since Thursday 16 July.

Map of Oregon. The Powder River Fire burns 27 miles from Baker City and 205 miles from Bend, and 282 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 27 miles from Baker City and 205 miles from Bend.

21,088

acres burned so far — about 33 square miles

42

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Powder River Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 21,088 acres in Baker 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

4people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

42 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 16 July at 10:30pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.755, -117.278lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.