Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Foothill Blvd 5651 Fire

Burning 0.7 miles west of Rogue River and 3.7 miles north-west of Foots Creek, since Wednesday 14 October.

Map of Oregon. The Foothill Blvd 5651 Fire burns 18 miles from Medford and 112 miles from Eugene, and 172 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 18 miles from Medford and 112 miles from Eugene.

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acreage not yet reported

18

hours burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Foothill Blvd 5651 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

18 hours

on record — first written down on Wednesday 14 October at 3:34pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.433, -123.181lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.2 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. Fielder Mtn Fire started on Thursday 13 August, 1.5 miles south-west, and has reached 573 acres with 148 people assigned. Foothill Blvd 4004 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 4.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. E Evans Creek Rd 4825 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 4.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Foots Creek Rd 4444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 6.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. NFCA Grandview Ave 422 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 7.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. PP-1337005/ N Applegate Rd Fire started on Monday 21 September, 8.8 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. Wednesday 14 October

    First reported