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Josephine County, Oregon

Hog Creek Fire

Burning 3.5 miles north-west of Merlin and 10.1 miles north-west of Redwood, since Thursday 8 October.

Map of Oregon. The Hog Creek Fire burns 36 miles from Medford and 106 miles from Eugene, and 166 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 36 miles from Medford and 106 miles from Eugene.

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acreage not yet reported

7

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 Hog Creek 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.

7 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 8 October at 8:14am local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.548, -123.490lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.0 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 82% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Crow Rd 2275 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 1.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 4.2 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Opal Ln 500 Fire started on Monday 12 October, 4.8 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pinecrest Dr 1255 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 8.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Patrick Rd 129 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 11.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Stringer Gap Rd 2250 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 12.0 miles south-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 8 October

    First reported