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.

284

acres burned so far — about 0.4 square miles

20

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The The Narrows Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 10 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 10 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

10hours

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

290% more

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

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 13.4 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Estacada is 15.9 miles, 16.0 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 9,237 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 48 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

One place is burning

1.1 miles south of the recorded point

21 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 5.6 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 99% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

Eight days of record on a day-21 fire

The record here begins at 9:02pm on 21 Aug and runs to 3:45am on 28 Aug — 151 hours, 251 readings of heat. The fire is on day 21, so the first 13 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, 53 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 8 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 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 18 heat readings
    • Energy 53% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 3:45am
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 2 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 5 acres when it was first written down to 284 now. Nothing has looked at it for 10 hours, and the record still lists it as active.