Awatchfire

Marion County, Oregon

Edison Fire

Burning 1.8 miles south of Silverton and 6.4 miles south of Mount Angel, since Friday 28 August.

Map of Oregon. The Edison Fire burns 13 miles from Salem and 39 miles from Portland, and 13 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 13 miles from Salem and 39 miles from Portland.

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acreage not yet reported

48

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 6:45pm today

The Edison Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 5 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Edison 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

5hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:05pm on Thursday, local time.

1readings

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

1.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Silverton at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 2.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Mount Angel is 5.9 miles, 6.9 in the last day.

3.1miles

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

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Evans Creek 31 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 2.6 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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 153 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 18.6 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 37% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

Four days of record on a day-49 fire

The record here begins at 2:06pm on 28 Aug and runs to 2:06pm on 15 Oct — 1152 hours, 30 readings of heat. The fire is on day 49, so the first 45 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.

Animated map of the Edison Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 387 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 4 days of record

  1. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Aug

    First readings

    • 19 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:06pm to 2:25pm
    • Spread 1.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Thu 10 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu10 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 7 heat readings
    • Energy 94% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:21pm to 3:22pm
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  3. Map for Tue 22 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue22 Sep

    Flaring up

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 1.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:01pm to 2:01pm
    • Spread 1.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  4. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 99% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:06pm to 2:06pm
    • Spread 1.2 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. Friday 28 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.