Burning 2.1 miles west of Days Creek and 4.8 miles north-east of Canyonville, since Monday 6 July.
The fire sits 48 miles from Medford and 75 miles from Eugene.
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acreage not yet reported
100
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Beckworth Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 187 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 187 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
187hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:20pm on Wednesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
1.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Days Creek 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 Canyonville is 4.0 miles, None in the last day.
0.9miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Eight other fires are burning inside the same view. Days Creek Bridge Fire started on Saturday 30 May, 1.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Days Creek Cutoff Fire started on Friday 12 June, 1.5 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Dietch Creek Fire started on Friday 15 May, 2.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Gazley Rd. Fire started on Tuesday 16 June, 2.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Little Gazley Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.4 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. North Gazley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Packard Gulch Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 1.9 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. South Myrtle Rd Fire started on Sunday 21 June, 4.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 five 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.
Nothing close enough to the fire has reported the conditions on the ground.
How it got here
Three days of record on a day-102 fire
The record here begins at 2:14pm on 16 Sep and runs to 2:21pm on 7 Oct — 504 hours, 16 readings of heat. The fire is on day 102, so the first 99 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.
The whole record, 171 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 3 days of record
Wed16 Sep
First readings
9 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:14pm to 3:10pm
Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Wed30 Sep
Cooling off
4 heat readings
Energy 89% down on the day before
Heat from 1:49pm to 3:27pm
Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Wed7 Octlatest
Today so far
3 heat readings
Energy 1.1 times the day before
Heat from 1:17pm to 2:21pm
Spread 0.8 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.
Monday 6 July
First reported
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 187 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
