Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Butte Falls Prospect Rd 4000 Fire

Burning 3.9 miles north-east of Butte Falls and 12.8 miles south of Prospect, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Oregon. The Butte Falls Prospect Rd 4000 Fire burns 24 miles from Medford and 107 miles from Eugene, and 165 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 24 miles from Medford and 107 miles from Eugene.

2

acres burned so far

52

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Butte Falls Prospect Rd 4000 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in Jackson 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.

52 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 3:07pm local time, starting at 2 acres.

42.571, -122.504lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.8 miles from the fire: 62°F, air at 35% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Plum Creek Ln Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 3.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Obenchain 1888 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 9.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sky Fire started on Friday 4 September, 12.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. 352 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 14.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Soda Conde Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 15.1 miles south, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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. Sunday 23 August

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    2 acres on record

    2 ac