Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Highway 62 17460 Fire

Burning 3.3 miles south of Shady Cove and 6.2 miles north of Eagle Point, since Saturday 3 October.

Map of Oregon. The Highway 62 17460 Fire burns 15 miles from Medford and 105 miles from Eugene, and 164 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 15 miles from Medford and 105 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

11

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Highway 62 17460 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

11 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 3 October at 2:50pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.558, -122.810lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 15.2 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 42% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Hammel Rd 1501 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 0.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Ironwood Dr 176 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 2.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Reese creek Rd 1290 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 4.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. PP #01335001309000 Pine Gate Wy Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 5.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Obenchain 1888 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 8.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rock Creek Rd 415 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 9.1 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 three 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. Saturday 3 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 3 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac