Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Fielder Mtn Fire

Burning 2.2 miles south-west of Rogue River and 4.1 miles north-west of Foots Creek, since Thursday 13 August.

Map of Oregon. The Fielder Mtn Fire burns 19 miles from Medford and 113 miles from Eugene, and 173 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 19 miles from Medford and 113 miles from Eugene.

573

acres burned so far — about 0.9 square miles

62

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Fielder Mtn Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 573 acres in Jackson 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

148people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

62 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 13 August at 3:05pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

Type 1 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

42.422, -123.207lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.2 miles from the fire: 38°F, air at 90% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Foothill Blvd 5651 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 1.5 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Foothill Blvd 4004 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 2.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. E Evans Creek Rd 4825 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 5.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Foots Creek Rd 4444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 5.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. NFCA Grandview Ave 422 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 6.2 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. PP-1337005/ N Applegate Rd Fire started on Monday 21 September, 7.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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. Thursday 13 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    573 acres on record — 93% contained, 167 personnel assigned

    573 ac · 93% held · 167 crew
  3. Thursday 27 August

    Containment 100% — 148 personnel

    573 ac · 100% held · 148 crew