Awatchfire

Harney County, Oregon

Second Flat Fire

Burning 18.2 miles west of Hines and 19.0 miles west of Burns, since Friday 24 July.

Map of Oregon. The Second Flat Fire burns 98 miles from Bend and 113 miles from Baker City, and 199 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 98 miles from Bend and 113 miles from Baker City.

105,854

acres burned so far — about 165 square miles

82

days burning so far

99%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Second Flat Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 105,854 acres in Harney 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.

99% held

99% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

77people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

82 days

on record — first written down on Friday 24 July at 3:53pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 1 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

43.609, -119.439lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.7 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 46% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the south-east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Elliot Well Fire started on Monday 31 August, 6.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Egypt Fire started on Thursday 16 July, 8.3 miles north, and has reached 4,553 acres with 3 people assigned. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Friday 24 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    105,854 acres on record — 96% contained, 100 personnel assigned

    105,854 ac · 96% held · 100 crew
  3. Sunday 23 August

    Containment 99% — 77 personnel

    105,854 ac · 99% held · 77 crew