Butte Creek Fire is located north of Warm Springs and east of highway 26 in the Beaver Creek drainage on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon. The fire is burning in steep, rugged terrain, and it's cause is undetermined.
Butte Creek Fire 0.0000, -0.0000
WILDFIRE reported in Oregon, BLM Prineville District
Last updated 1 month, 3 weeks agoReported 2 months, 2 weeks ago via ORCOCIncident # 2025-ORPRD-000163
Initial Location
13.7 miles WNW of Fossil, OR
Dispatch Notes
N/A
Assigned Resources
N/A
Responsible Agency
Bureau of Land Management — Prineville District
Fuels
GRASS/BRSH/TIM
Incident Status
Contained on May 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM PDT · Controlled on Jun 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM PDT
Nearby Weather Conditions
Incident Weather Concerns
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Basic Information
Last Updated
Tue, Jul 29, 2025 12:10 PM PDT
Incident Time Zone
Pacific Standard Time
Incident Type
Wildfire
Cause
Undetermined
Fire Discovered
Fri, Jul 18, 2025 9:59 PM PDT
Incident Time Zone
Pacific Standard Time
Location
2 miles west of Simnasho, Oregon
Incident Commander
James Osborne, IC - NW Team 3
Lonnie Click, Deputy IC
Randy Johnson, Deputy IC
Larae Guillory, IC(t)
Lonnie Click, Deputy IC
Randy Johnson, Deputy IC
Larae Guillory, IC(t)
Current Situation
Total Personnel
280
Size
2,079
Containment
85%
Estimated Containment Date
Thu, Jul 31, 2025
Fuels Involved
Short Grass (1 foot)
Timber (Grass and Understory)
Brush (2 feet)
Fuel types consist of juniper, ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir, grass and dense shrub fields with duff and scattered dead and down. Brush fields with conifer/juniper regeneration. Grass is cured and contributing to fire intensity and spread.
2007 Highway 9 fire footprint, shrubs and varying amounts of standing and fallen snags. Fire spread is driven by the density of the heavy fuels, leading to fingering and patchy burn patterns. Regeneration and shrubs may or may not burn depending on live fuel moisture, the continuity of the fuel bed, wind and/or slope.
Significant Events
Minimal
Creeping
Smoldering
Fire behavior is very minimal with occassional creeping and smoldering in pockets of unburned fuels.
Outlook
Planned Actions
Continuing to mop-up and patrol the perimeter of the fire. With particular attention to reinforcing mop-up along Highway 9 and fire line to Beaver Creek as well as along Coyote Creek.
Projected Incident Activity
12 hours: No spread or movement expected, minimal activity confined to creeping
24 hours: Reduced activity confined mainly to duff under juniper and interior green islands. Residual heat on East end of Butte Creek in Beaver Creek drainage.
48 hours: Reduced activity confined mainly to dead
72 hours: Reduced activity confined mainly to dead
72 hours: Continued reduction in activity and smoke, no significant activity expected.
Remarks
The Highway 9 was opened to the public use on 7/25; however short-term temporary closures may continue to occur in order to facilitate hazard tree mitigation operations.
Current Weather
Weather Concerns
TODAY (7/26/2025): Overnight, conditions were moist and cool with moderate relative humidity recovery around 70-80%. Temperatures were mild around 60 degrees. Temperatures quickly rose reaching 70-75 degrees by 1000, then reached a peak of 80-86 degrees with a humidity around 27-35% depending on elevation. Winds were diurnal overnight but became generally westerly in the early afternoon. Gusts reached peak speeds of around 20 mph.
SUNDAY (7/27/2025): Nearly an unchanged forecast aside from conditions being slightly warmer and drier. The fire will still see moderate to high humidity recovery overnight. However with clear skies there will be a thermal belt forming within the valleys and therefore humidity will be higher in the mid-slopes. Through the afternoon, humidity will drop to 20-25%, with high temperatures ranging from 78-86 degrees with valleys being the warmest.
Public Information
Warm Springs Fire Management
Phone: 541-553-1146
Dispatch Center
Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center (ORCOC)
Redmond, OR