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.
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Friday 23 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
2
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:40am today
The Garner Rd Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Josephine 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.
2 hours
on record — first written down on Friday 23 October at 7:26am local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.144, -123.560lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.0 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 71% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Tartar Gulch Rd Fire started on Friday 16 October, 3.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Althouse Creek Rd. 1111 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 3.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Crickett Ln 375 Fire started on Saturday 15 August, 4.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. June Dr. Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 4.5 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. West Side Rd 5565 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 5.6 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Kerby Mainline Rd. MM 1 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 5.8 miles north-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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 65 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.