Burning 9.7 miles north of Sumpter and 12.0 miles north-east of Granite, since Saturday 22 August.
The fire sits 19 miles from Baker City and 164 miles from Bend.
0
acres burned so far
6
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 4:12pm today
The Summit Lake Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 13 hours ago.
No fresh look at this fire for 13 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
13hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:00am on Friday, local time.
7readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
8.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Sumpter at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 8.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Granite is 9.0 miles, 9.2 in the last day.
3.0miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Dutch Flat Fire started 30 minutes before this one, 4.7 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. May Flower Fire started 660 minutes after this one, 1.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. North Pole Fire started 36 minutes before this one, 2.8 miles south, and has reached 310 acres with 81 people assigned. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Three larger fires are burning outside this frame: McCully Fire 5.6 miles south-west at 8,305 acres, Anthony Fire 7.5 miles north at 2,584 acres and McCulley Fire 5.6 miles south-west at 1,202 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 41 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 8:00am and 10:00am local time.
One place is burning
1.4 miles south-west of the recorded point
6 readings of heat in the last day —
all of the heat seen in that time.
Conditions measured 13.8 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 34% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
Four days of record on a day-7 fire
The record here begins at 2:15am on 25 Aug and runs to 3:00am on 28 Aug — 73 hours, 61 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 3 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.
The whole record, 27 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 4 days of record
Tue25 Aug
First readings
6 heat readings
Heat from 2:15am to 3:56am
Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Wed26 Aug
The fiercest day
18 heat readings
Energy 29.6 times the day before
Heat from 2:41am to 9:00pm
Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
Thu27 Aug
Cooling off
30 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 91% down on the day before
Heat from 2:24am to 2:44pm
Spread 2.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
Fri28 Auglatest
Cooling off
7 heat readings
Energy 88% down on the day before
Heat from 2:05am to 3:00am
Spread 2.8 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 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 13 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
