Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Anderson Butte Rd MM4 Fire

Burning 6.6 miles south-west of Talent and 7.5 miles south-west of Phoenix, since Sunday 20 September.

Map of Oregon. The Anderson Butte Rd MM4 Fire burns 11 miles from Medford and 131 miles from Eugene, and 190 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 11 miles from Medford and 131 miles from Eugene.

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acreage not yet reported

24

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Anderson Butte Rd MM4 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 581 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 581 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Anderson Butte Rd MM4 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

581hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:50am on Monday, local time.

41% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

6.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Talent 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 Phoenix is 7.7 miles, None in the last day.

0.5miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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 10.1 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 32% humidity, a 20 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-26 fire

The record here begins at 2:56am on 21 Sep and runs to 3:51am on 21 Sep — 1 hours, 8 readings of heat. The fire is on day 26, so the first 25 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.

Animated map of the Anderson Butte Rd MM4 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Mon 2:00amMon 3:00am

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

  1. Map for Mon 21 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon21 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 8 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:56am to 3:51am
    • Spread 0.5 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. Sunday 20 September

    First reported at 8 acres

    8 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 581 hours, and the record still lists it as active.