Douglas County, Oregon
Burning 25.3 miles north of Prospect and 28.5 miles south-east of Glide, since Wednesday 22 July.
3,615
acres burned so far — about 6 square miles
84
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Castle Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3,615 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.
100% held
100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.
114people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
84 days
on record — first written down on Wednesday 22 July at 5:54pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 3 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
43.114, -122.563lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.1 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 61% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-west.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Magnum Fire started 2 minutes after this one, 0.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cf - 356 Rd Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 4.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. 500 rd Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 7.5 miles 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.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three 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.
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.
Wednesday 22 July
First reported
Sunday 23 August
3,615 acres on record — 97% contained, 83 personnel assigned
3,615 ac · 97% held · 83 crewThursday 27 August
Containment 100% — 114 personnel
3,615 ac · 100% held · 114 crew