Awatchfire

Grant County, Oregon

Tamarack Fire

Burning 6.9 miles north of Mount Vernon and 11.3 miles north-west of John Day, since Monday 2 November.

Map of Oregon. The Tamarack Fire burns 67 miles from Baker City and 112 miles from Bend, and 193 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 67 miles from Baker City and 112 miles from Bend.

2

acres burned so far

18

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:50am today

The Tamarack Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

18 hours

on record — first written down on Monday 2 November at 5:19pm local time, starting at 2 acres.

44.514, -119.142lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.0 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 36% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Little Bear Fire started on Monday 10 August, 4.9 miles east, and has reached 67 acres with 2 people assigned. Coxie Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 12.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Sandhill Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 13.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Cottonwood Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 14.1 miles north-west, and has reached 722 acres with 4 people assigned. Jebrick Fire started on Friday 18 September, 14.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Dog Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 15.3 miles south-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 three times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 307 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. Monday 2 November

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

  2. Tuesday 3 November

    2 acres on record

    2 ac