Awatchfire

Clackamas County, Oregon

The Narrows Fire

Burning 13.2 miles south of Mount Hood Villages and 15.6 miles south-east of Estacada, since Saturday 8 August.

Map of Oregon. The The Narrows Fire burns 38 miles from Portland and 48 miles from Salem, and 48 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 38 miles from Portland and 48 miles from Salem.

305

acres burned so far — about 0.5 square miles

67

days burning so far

98%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The The Narrows Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1085 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1085 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the The Narrows 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

1085hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:45am on Monday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

13.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Mount Hood Villages 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 Estacada is 15.9 miles, None in the last day.

1.8miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Austin Fire 11.1 miles south-east at 12,888 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 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 143 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 5.6 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 92% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

Nine days of record on a day-69 fire

The record here begins at 9:02pm on 21 Aug and runs to 3:43am on 31 Aug — 223 hours, 265 readings of heat. The fire is on day 69, so the first 60 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 The Narrows Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 77 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 9 days of record

  1. Map for Fri 21 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri21 Aug

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 9:02pm to 9:02pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the night
  2. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat22 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 49 heat readings
    • Energy 10.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:54am to 4:26pm
    • Spread 1.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning and afternoon
  3. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 20 heat readings
    • Energy 59% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:34am to 2:21pm
    • Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  4. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 72 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 4.1 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:15am to 9:19pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  5. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Holding

    • 41 heat readings
    • Energy 47% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:15am to 8:21pm
    • Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and evening
  6. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 38 heat readings
    • Energy 51% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 3:44pm
    • Spread 1.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  7. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 11 heat readings
    • Energy 52% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:00am to 4:22pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  8. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    Holding

    • 26 heat readings
    • Energy 1.4 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 2:25pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  9. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 6 heat readings
    • Energy 93% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 3:43am
    • 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 8 August

    First reported at 5 acres

    5 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    212 acres on record — 0% contained, 29 personnel assigned

    212 ac · 0% held · 29 crew

  3. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 223 acres — 25 personnel

    223 ac · 0% held · 25 crew

  4. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 232 acres — 20 personnel

    232 ac · 0% held · 20 crew

  5. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 262 acres — 2 personnel

    262 ac · 0% held · 2 crew

  6. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 281 acres

    281 ac · 0% held · 2 crew

  7. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 284 acres

    284 ac · 0% held · 2 crew

  8. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 287 acres — 3 personnel

    287 ac · 0% held · 3 crew

  9. Saturday 29 August

    Grew to 292 acres

    292 ac · 0% held · 3 crew

  10. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 296 acres — containment 11%

    296 ac · 11% held · 3 crew

  11. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 301 acres — 2 personnel

    301 ac · 11% held · 2 crew

  12. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 302 acres

    302 ac · 11% held · 2 crew

  13. Thursday 3 September

    Containment 27%

    302 ac · 27% held · 2 crew

  14. Tuesday 8 September

    Grew to 304 acres — containment 26%, 8 personnel

    304 ac · 26% held · 8 crew

  15. Wednesday 9 September

    Containment 89%

    304 ac · 89% held · 8 crew

  16. Tuesday 15 September

    Grew to 305 acres — containment 98%

    305 ac · 98% held · 8 crew

98% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 8 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 5 acres when it was first written down to 305 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1085 hours, and the record still lists it as active.