Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Big Lick Lane Fire

Burning 4.6 miles north-east of Myrtle Creek and 7.1 miles north of Days Creek, since Wednesday 15 July.

Map of Oregon. The Big Lick Lane Fire burns 54 miles from Medford and 68 miles from Eugene, and 129 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 54 miles from Medford and 68 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

91

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Big Lick Lane Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 571 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 571 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Big Lick Lane 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 Where another fire is recorded

571hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:20pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

3.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Myrtle 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 Days Creek is 8.1 miles, None in the last day.

1.9miles

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

Another fire is burning inside the same view. South Myrtle Rd Fire started on Sunday 21 June, 3.4 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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 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

Two days of record on a day-93 fire

The record here begins at 1:53pm on 20 Sep and runs to 2:21pm on 21 Sep — 24 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 93, so the first 91 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 Big Lick Lane Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 32 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

Sun 1:00pmMon 2:00pm

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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Sun 20 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun20 Sep

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 1:53pm to 1:53pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Mon 21 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon21 Seplatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 25% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:21pm to 2:21pm
    • Spread 1.9 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.

  1. Wednesday 15 July

    First reported

  2. Monday 31 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 571 hours, and the record still lists it as active.