Awatchfire

Baker County, Oregon

Twin Fire

Burning 10.0 miles west of Haines and 11.8 miles south-west of North Powder, since Friday 4 September.

Map of Oregon. The Twin Fire burns 19 miles from Baker City and 168 miles from Bend, and 239 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 19 miles from Baker City and 168 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

40

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Twin Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Baker 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

40 days

on record — first written down on Friday 4 September at 1:20pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

44.952, -118.136lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 15.3 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 9% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Dutch Flat Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Patten Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 1.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Anthony Fire started on Wednesday 8 July, 4.1 miles north-west, and has reached 2,584 acres with 14 people assigned. Summit Lake Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 5.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. May Flower Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. North Pole Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 8.0 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.

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.

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. Friday 4 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 4 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac