Awatchfire

Union County, Oregon

Tie Spring Fire

Burning 6.7 miles north of La Grande and 6.8 miles north-west of Island City, since Monday 12 October.

Map of Oregon. The Tie Spring Fire burns 47 miles from Baker City and 182 miles from Bend, and 241 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 47 miles from Baker City and 182 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

2

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Tie Spring Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Union 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.

2 days

on record — first written down on Monday 12 October at 6:29pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

45.417, -118.128lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.1 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 16% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Camp 1 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.4 miles west, and has reached 6 acres. Robbs Hill Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 3.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Frizzel Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 5.1 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Target Fire started on Friday 2 October, 9.5 miles south-west, and has reached 61 acres. Middle Ridge Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 12.4 miles north-east, and has reached 138 acres with 52 people assigned. Marsh Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 13.0 miles south-east, and has reached 3 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 11:00am and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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 12 October

    First reported

  2. Monday 12 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac