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Curry County, Oregon

China Mountain Road Fire

Burning 3.1 miles south-east of Port Orford and 13.8 miles south of Langlois, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Oregon. The China Mountain Road Fire burns 86 miles from Medford and 114 miles from Eugene, and 168 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 86 miles from Medford and 114 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

53

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The China Mountain Road Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Curry 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.

53 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 12:03am local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.726, -124.446lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 20.8 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 30% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the south-east.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four 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.

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

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac