Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

500 rd Fire

Burning 22.1 miles south-east of Glide and 24.9 miles north-east of Days Creek, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Oregon. The 500 rd Fire burns 54 miles from Medford and 69 miles from Eugene, and 126 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 54 miles from Medford and 69 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

3

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

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.

  1. Saturday 29 August

    First reported

  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Saturday 29 August

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac