Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Flumet Fire

Burning 8.6 miles south of Ruch and 12.7 miles south-east of Williams, since Sunday 25 October.

Map of Oregon. The Flumet Fire burns 20 miles from Medford and 134 miles from Eugene, and 194 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 20 miles from Medford and 134 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

10

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 11:09am today

The Flumet Fire is still building. The last heat was seen 8 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Flumet Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

8hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Sunday, local time.

26% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

8.6miles

is how close the heat has come to Ruch at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 8.6 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Williams is 12.7 miles, 12.7 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

0.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 115 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

One place is burning

At the point on the record

6 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 5.0 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 36% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:17am on 25 Oct and runs to 3:13am on 25 Oct — 1 hours, 6 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Flumet Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Sun 2:00amSun 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sun 25 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun25 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 6 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:17am to 3:13am
    • Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Sunday 25 October

    First reported

  2. Sunday 25 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.