The official record as of 5:36pm today
The 500 rd Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Douglas 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.
3 hours
on record — first written down on
Saturday 29 August
at 2:29pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
43.110, -122.712lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.8 miles from the fire: 76°F, air at 31% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the west.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Castle Fire started on Wednesday 22 July, 7.5 miles east, and has reached 3,615 acres with 114 people assigned. Cf - 356 Rd Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 3.9 miles south-east, 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 10 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.
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Saturday 29 August
First reported
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Saturday 29 August
0 acres on record
0 ac
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Saturday 29 August
Grew to 0 acres
0 ac