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.
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Thursday 27 August
First reported
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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 official record as of 9:09am today
The Elkins Non-Stat Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Polk 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.
48 days
on record — first written down on Thursday 27 August at 12:16pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
44.801, -123.249lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 5.8 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 76% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-west.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Webb Lane Fire started on Monday 28 September, 10.1 miles north, 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 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.