Wasco County, Oregon
Burning 2.0 miles south-east of Chenoweth and 2.2 miles west of The Dalles, since Saturday 22 August.
0
acres burned so far
53
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am 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.
53 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.
Conditions measured 15.7 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 61% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the east.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Orchard Road Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 3.6 miles south-west, and has reached 150 acres. Avery Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 8.5 miles north-east, and has reached 50 acres. Saddle Spring Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 11.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Celilo Park Fire started on Saturday 20 June, 12.3 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.
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.
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.
Saturday 22 August
First reported
Sunday 23 August
0 acres on record
0 ac