Malheur County, Oregon
Burning 8.1 miles west of Annex and 9.5 miles west of Weiser, since Saturday 26 September.
119
acres burned so far
19
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Wheel Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 119 acres in Malheur 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.
18 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 26 September at 10:12am local time, starting at 10 acres.
44.222, -117.155lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.2 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 41% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the south-east.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Mm 364 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Benson Fire started on Friday 2 October, 9.7 miles north-west, 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.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm 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.
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 26 September
First reported at 10 acres
10 acSaturday 26 September
10 acres on record
10 acSaturday 26 September
Grew to 60 acres
60 acSaturday 26 September
Grew to 119 acres
119 ac