Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Dairy Loop Rd Fire

Burning 1.3 miles south of Lookingglass and 5.0 miles north-west of Winston, since Tuesday 23 June.

Map of Oregon. The Dairy Loop Rd Fire burns 64 miles from Eugene and 66 miles from Medford, and 124 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 64 miles from Eugene and 66 miles from Medford.

2

acres burned so far

113

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Dairy Loop Rd Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 689 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 689 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Dairy Loop Rd 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

689hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:55pm on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

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

1.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Lookingglass 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 Winston is 5.5 miles, None in the last day.

0.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Brockway Fire started on Sunday 5 July, 3.9 miles south-east, and has reached 1 acres. Strickland Canyon Fire started on Monday 6 July, 0.8 miles south-west, 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 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 11.1 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 45% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-115 fire

The record here begins at 3:54pm on 16 Sep and runs to 3:54pm on 16 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 115, so the first 114 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 Dairy Loop Rd Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Wed 3:00pmWed 3:00pm

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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Wed 16 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed16 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:54pm to 3:54pm
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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 23 June

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Monday 31 August

    2 acres on record

    2 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 1 acres when it was first written down to 2 now. Nothing has looked at it for 689 hours, and the record still lists it as active.