Awatchfire

Polk County, Oregon

Elkins Non-Stat Fire

Burning 3.6 miles south of Monmouth and 4.6 miles south-west of Independence, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Oregon. The Elkins Non-Stat Fire burns 14 miles from Salem and 52 miles from Eugene, and 14 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 14 miles from Salem and 52 miles from Eugene.

acreage not yet reported

33

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:37pm 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.

33 hours

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.

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.