Burning 3.8 miles north-west of Mehama and 4.8 miles east of Sublimity, since Wednesday 16 September.
The fire sits 18 miles from Salem and 50 miles from Portland.
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acreage not yet reported
28
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Etzel Road Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 499 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 499 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
499hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:20pm on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
3.8miles
is how close the heat has come to Mehama at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Sublimity is 4.4 miles, None 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. Section 12 Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 2.8 miles 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 143 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 16.7 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 48% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the east.
How it got here
Three days of record on a day-30 fire
The record here begins at 2:31pm on 17 Sep and runs to 2:21pm on 24 Sep — 168 hours, 6 readings of heat. The fire is on day 30, so the first 27 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.
The whole record, 59 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 3 days of record
Thu17 Sep
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:31pm to 2:31pm
Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Tue22 Sep
The fiercest day
4 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 30.2 times the day before
Heat from 2:38pm to 2:57pm
Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Thu24 Seplatest
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 89% down on the day before
Heat from 2:21pm to 2:21pm
Spread 3.1 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.
Wednesday 16 September
First reported
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 499 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
