Burning 3.5 miles north-west of Bonanza and 14.0 miles east of Altamont, since Friday 9 October.
The fire sits 72 miles from Medford and 126 miles from Bend.
0
acres burned so far
5
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The 401 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 138 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 138 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
138hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:40pm on Friday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
4.4miles
is how close the heat has come to Bonanza 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 Altamont is 13.7 miles, None in the last day.
1.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 387 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Nfca #25 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 2.8 miles south, 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 1:10pm 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 16.4 miles from the fire: 36°F, air at 77% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-7 fire
The record here begins at 2:18pm on 9 Oct and runs to 2:38pm on 9 Oct — 0 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 6 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
Fri 2:00pmFri 2:00pm
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
Fri9 Octlatest
First readings
4 heat readings
Heat from 2:18pm to 2:38pm
Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Friday 9 October
First reported
Friday 9 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 has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 138 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
