Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Deans Creek Elk Viewing Area Fire

Burning 3.0 miles east of Reedsport and 3.9 miles south-east of Gardiner, since Thursday 20 August.

Map of Oregon. The Deans Creek Elk Viewing Area Fire burns 53 miles from Eugene and 99 miles from Salem, and 99 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 53 miles from Eugene and 99 miles from Salem.

0

acres burned so far

55

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Deans Creek Elk Viewing Area 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.

55 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 20 August at 3:22pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.692, -124.053lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.7 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 69% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. 352 Cc Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 7.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Falling Tree Fire started 1192 minutes after this one, 10.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. South Tenmile Lake Fire started 1004 minutes after this one, 10.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. North Beach Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 14.7 miles north, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 143 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. Thursday 20 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac