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Wasco County, Oregon

West 8 Fire

Burning 2.0 miles south-east of Chenoweth and 2.2 miles west of The Dalles, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Oregon. The West 8 Fire burns 70 miles from Portland and 100 miles from Salem, and 100 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 70 miles from Portland and 100 miles from Salem.

0

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The West 8 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Wasco 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.

6 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 22 August at 3:32pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

45.604, -121.197lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.