Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Buck Creek Fire

Burning 5.2 miles north-east of Drain and 7.9 miles north-east of Yoncalla, since Tuesday 7 April.

Map of Oregon. The Buck Creek Fire burns 25 miles from Eugene and 85 miles from Salem, and 85 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 25 miles from Eugene and 85 miles from Salem.

0

acres burned so far

210

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 5:17pm today

The Buck Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Douglas 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

210 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 7 April at 3:59pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.704, -123.227lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.7 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 74% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Curtis Creek Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 4.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Kelly Creek Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Poodle Creek Fire started on Saturday 13 June, 7.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Jack Creek Fire started on Sunday 14 June, 8.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Snell Rd Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 9.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Black Butte Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 11.3 miles south-east, and has reached 4 acres. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 338 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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 7 April

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 3 November

    0 acres on record

    0 ac