Map of Oregon. The Bottle Creek Fire burns 49 miles from Eugene and 82 miles from Medford, and 107 miles from the state capital, Salem. — The fire sits 49 miles from Eugene and 82 miles from Medford.

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acreage not yet reported

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Bottle Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1085 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1085 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Bottle Creek 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

1085hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:45am on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

10.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Sutherlin 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 Oakland is 11.5 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

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. Murdock Fire started on Tuesday 7 July, 4.4 miles east, 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm 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 17.5 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 45% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-47 fire

The record here begins at 2:22am on 30 Aug and runs to 3:43am on 31 Aug — 25 hours, 15 readings of heat. The fire is on day 47, so the first 45 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 Bottle Creek 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 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 2 days of record

Sun30 Aug

First readings
- 12 heat readings — the most of any day
- Heat from 2:22am to 2:31pm
- Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn, morning and afternoon
Mon31 Auglatest

Cooling off
- 3 heat readings
- Energy 97% down on the day before
- Heat from 2:49am to 3:43am
- Spread 0.2 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.

Sunday 30 August

First reported at 1 acres
1 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 1085 hours, and the record still lists it as active.

Where the heat is

Two days of record on a day-47 fire

Hour by hour local time

Day by day 2 days of record

First readings

Cooling off

How the record has moved