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Klamath County, Oregon

0694 Crescent Butte (Wr Inc) Fire

Burning 1.7 miles south-east of Gilchrist and 1.7 miles east of Crescent, since Saturday 8 August.

Map of Oregon. The 0694 Crescent Butte (Wr Inc) Fire burns 45 miles from Bend and 83 miles from Eugene, and 121 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 45 miles from Bend and 83 miles from Eugene.

113

acres burned so far

67

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The 0694 Crescent Butte (Wr Inc) Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 113 acres in Klamath 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

67 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 8 August at 2:17pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.463, -121.669lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 13.6 miles from the fire: 31°F, air at 100% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 0879 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 15.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. 0884 Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 15.1 miles north, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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.

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.

  1. Saturday 8 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    113 acres on record

    113 ac