Burning 0.8 miles west of St. Francis and 5.4 miles south of Two Strike, since Thursday 8 October.
Where the fire is in the state.
0
acres burned so far
7
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 10:09am today
The West Bales Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 175 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 175 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
175hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50am on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
0.8miles
is how close the heat has come to St. Francis at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Two Strike is 5.4 miles, None in the last day.
0.1miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. 4 Spots Fire started on Friday 21 August, 0.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Back Yard Fire started 423 minutes before this one, 4.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Camo Hill Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 0.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Sweet Pine Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Toksa 15 Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 4.9 miles north, and has reached 1 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 seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:00pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 113 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 16.9 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 52% humidity, a 30 mph wind out of the north-west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-8 fire
The record here begins at 2:52am on 8 Oct and runs to 2:52am on 8 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 8, so the first 7 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 7 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Thu 2:00amThu 2:00am
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Thu8 Octlatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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.
Thursday 8 October
First reported
Thursday 8 October
0 acres on record
0 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It stands at 0 acres on the latest record. Nothing has looked at it for 175 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
