Awatchfire

Grant County, Oregon

Salmon Fire

Burning 0.9 miles north-west of Greenhorn and 7.8 miles south-west of Granite, since Wednesday 8 July.

Map of Oregon. The Salmon Fire burns 34 miles from Baker City and 145 miles from Bend, and 222 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 34 miles from Baker City and 145 miles from Bend.

1,433

acres burned so far — about 2 square miles

99

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Salmon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1,433 acres in Grant 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.

11people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

99 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 8 July at 12:16am local time, starting at 8 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.717, -118.510lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.1 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 41% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Buck Gulch Fire started 740 minutes after this one, 2.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Olive Butte Fire started 504 minutes after this one, 3.4 miles north-east, and has reached 3,092 acres. Gimlet Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 11.1 miles east, and has reached 1 acres. McCulley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 13.6 miles north-east, and has reached 1,202 acres with 92 people assigned. McCully Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 13.6 miles north-east, and has reached 13,604 acres with 84 people assigned. Battle Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 15.5 miles north-west, 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 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. Wednesday 8 July

    First reported at 8 acres

    8 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    1,433 acres on record — 90% contained, 31 personnel assigned

    1,433 ac · 90% held · 31 crew

  3. Wednesday 2 September

    Containment 95%

    1,433 ac · 95% held · 31 crew

  4. Saturday 3 October

    Containment 100% — 11 personnel

    1,433 ac · 100% held · 11 crew