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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Sunday 6 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
39
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Gravel Pit Lane Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Douglas 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.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
39 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 6 September at 3:50am local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.925, -123.411lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 19.3 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 38% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Riddle Bypass Rd Fire started on Thursday 23 July, 2.9 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Pruner Fire started on Thursday 30 July, 3.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Loop Rd. Fire started on Friday 3 July, 6.2 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Blossom Fire started on Monday 15 June, 6.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. North Gazley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 7.3 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Canyon Creek Fire started on Monday 7 September, 7.9 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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.