Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

E Evans Creek Rd 4825 Fire

Burning 4.0 miles south of Wimer and 4.3 miles north of Rogue River, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Oregon. The E Evans Creek Rd 4825 Fire burns 20 miles from Medford and 108 miles from Eugene, and 168 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 20 miles from Medford and 108 miles from Eugene.

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acreage not yet reported

51

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The E Evans Creek Rd 4825 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.

51 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 12:13pm local time, starting at 2 acres.

42.498, -123.173lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.7 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 42% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Foothill Blvd 5651 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 4.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Sykes Creek Rd 1615 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 5.3 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Fielder Mtn Fire started on Thursday 13 August, 5.5 miles south, and has reached 573 acres with 148 people assigned. Foothill Blvd 4004 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 6.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. NFCA Grandview Ave 422 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 9.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Rock Creek Rd 415 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 10.4 miles east, 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 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. Monday 24 August

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac