Awatchfire

Umatilla County, Oregon

Reese road Fire

Burning 2.2 miles south-east of Echo and 4.9 miles south-east of Stanfield, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Oregon. The Reese road Fire burns 92 miles from Baker City and 155 miles from Bend, and 195 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 92 miles from Baker City and 155 miles from Bend.

3

acres burned so far

4

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Reese road Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 109 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 109 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Reese road 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

109hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:20am on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

2.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Echo 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 Stanfield is 4.9 miles, None in the last day.

0.0miles

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 15 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 16.3 miles from the fire: 86°F, air at 22% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-5 fire

The record here begins at 3:19am on 24 Aug and runs to 3:19am on 24 Aug — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 5, so the first 4 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Reese road Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Mon 3:00amMon 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:19am to 3:19am
    • Spread 0.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 3 acres when it was first written down to 3 now. Nothing has looked at it for 109 hours, and the record still lists it as active.