Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

Summit Lake Fire

Burning 9.7 miles north of Sumpter and 12.0 miles north-east of Granite, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Oregon. The Summit Lake Fire burns 19 miles from Baker City and 164 miles from Bend, and 236 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 19 miles from Baker City and 164 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

53

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Summit Lake Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1134 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1134 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Summit Lake 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 Where another fire is recorded

1134hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:40am on Saturday, local time.

0readings

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 None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Granite is 9.0 miles, None 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 13,604 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 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.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 13.8 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 9% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

Five days of record on a day-55 fire

The record here begins at 2:15am on 25 Aug and runs to 2:41am on 29 Aug — 96 hours, 62 readings of heat. The fire is on day 55, so the first 50 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.

Animated map of the Summit Lake Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 35 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 5 days of record

  1. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  2. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  3. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  4. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    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
  5. Map for Sat 29 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat29 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 89% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 2:41am
    • Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Saturday 22 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

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 1134 hours, and the record still lists it as active.