Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Elk Creek Fire

Burning 13.8 miles north of Trail and 16.7 miles south-east of Days Creek, since Wednesday 2 September.

Map of Oregon. The Elk Creek Fire burns 36 miles from Medford and 83 miles from Eugene, and 143 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 36 miles from Medford and 83 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

43

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:20am today

The Elk Creek 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

43 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 2 September at 9:51am local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.862, -122.871lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.2 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 30% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-west.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Anderson Creek Fire started on Monday 3 August, 0.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Deer Fire started 126 minutes before this one, 2.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Shed Camp Fire started on Wednesday 20 May, 5.2 miles south-east, 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 11:00am and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 40 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. Wednesday 2 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 3 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac