Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Hinkle Gulch Fire

Burning 6.2 miles east of Williams and 6.7 miles west of Ruch, since Thursday 24 September.

Map of Oregon. The Hinkle Gulch Fire burns 18 miles from Medford and 126 miles from Eugene, and 186 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 18 miles from Medford and 126 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

20

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Hinkle Gulch 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

20 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 24 September at 9:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.234, -123.172lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.0 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. Williams Hwy 12591 Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 6.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Cedar Flat Rd 1527 Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 6.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Foots Creek Rd 4444 Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 7.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Woodrat Mountain Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 8.7 miles east, and has reached 282 acres with 55 people assigned. PP-1337005/ N Applegate Rd Fire started on Monday 21 September, 10.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kane Creek Rd Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 11.6 miles north-east, 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. Thursday 24 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 25 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac