Awatchfire

Lake County, Oregon

Benny Creek Fire

Burning 12.4 miles south of Silver Lake and 30.8 miles north-west of Paisley, since Tuesday 1 September.

Map of Oregon. The Benny Creek Fire burns 78 miles from Bend and 101 miles from Medford, and 168 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 78 miles from Bend and 101 miles from Medford.

0

acres burned so far

44

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Benny Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Lake 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

43 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 1 September at 9:10am local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.947, -121.043lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.3 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 73% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. 350 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 8.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sycan Fire started on Friday 11 September, 8.4 miles south-west, and has reached 2,185 acres with 60 people assigned. 391 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 9.7 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. 343 Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 10.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Picture Rock Fire started on Sunday 16 August, 14.3 miles east, and has reached 1,228 acres with 5 people assigned. 354 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 15.3 miles north-west, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Tuesday 1 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 1 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac