Awatchfire

Klamath County, Oregon

345 Fire

Burning 8.1 miles east of Chiloquin and 11.4 miles east of Oregon Shores, since Monday 7 September.

Map of Oregon. The 345 Fire burns 61 miles from Medford and 103 miles from Bend, and 174 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 61 miles from Medford and 103 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

37

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The 345 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 341 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 341 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 345 Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

341hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:45am on Thursday, local time.

79% less

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

7.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Chiloquin 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 Oregon Shores is 11.0 miles, None in the last day.

2.1miles

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. 338 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 1.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. 384 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 3.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Nfca #26 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 2.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Or981S Fire started on Monday 5 October, 3.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Outpost Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 3.2 miles 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.

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Wrights Spring Fire 8.8 miles south at 55,134 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 3.3 miles from the fire: 41°F, air at 69% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

Six days of record on a day-39 fire

The record here begins at 1:42pm on 23 Sep and runs to 3:43am on 1 Oct — 182 hours, 40 readings of heat. The fire is on day 39, so the first 33 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.

Animated map of the 345 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 63 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 6 days of record

  1. Map for Wed 23 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed23 Sep

    First readings

    • 6 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:42pm to 2:38pm
    • Spread 1.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Thu 24 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu24 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 98% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
    • Spread 1.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Mon 28 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon28 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 11 heat readings
    • Energy 93.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:04pm to 2:44pm
    • Spread 2.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  4. Map for Tue 29 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue29 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 94% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 2:06pm
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  5. Map for Wed 30 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed30 Sep

    The fiercest day

    • 16 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 20.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:10pm to 4:35pm
    • Spread 1.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  6. Map for Thu 1 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu1 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 97% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:09am to 3:43am
    • Spread 1.7 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.

  1. Monday 7 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 7 September

    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 has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 341 hours, and the record still lists it as active.