Awatchfire

Grant County, Oregon

Sandhill Fire

Burning 3.7 miles south-west of Canyon City and 4.9 miles south-west of John Day, since Thursday 17 September.

Map of Oregon. The Sandhill Fire burns 64 miles from Baker City and 116 miles from Bend, and 202 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 64 miles from Baker City and 116 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

27

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Sandhill Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

27 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 17 September at 9:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.354, -118.999lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.3 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 15% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Windfall Fire started 1192 minutes after this one, 6.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Dog Fire started 178 minutes before this one, 6.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Little Bear Fire started on Monday 10 August, 11.4 miles north, and has reached 67 acres with 2 people assigned. Jebrick Fire started 1254 minutes after this one, 12.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Sheep Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 13.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Coxie Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 13.7 miles north-east, 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. Thursday 17 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 18 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac