Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

I-5 Mm 9 Sb Fire

Burning 7.3 miles south-east of Ashland and 12.6 miles south-east of Talent, since Sunday 30 August.

Map of Oregon. The I-5 Mm 9 Sb Fire burns 20 miles from Medford and 137 miles from Eugene, and 196 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 20 miles from Medford and 137 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The I-5 Mm 9 Sb Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1038 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1038 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the I-5 Mm 9 Sb Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

1038hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:10am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

8.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Ashland at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Talent is 13.9 miles, None in the last day.

1.5miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Ski Rd Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 1.4 miles south, and has reached 1 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 2.7 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 30% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-47 fire

The record here begins at 3:09am on 2 Sep and runs to 3:09am on 2 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 47, so the first 46 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the I-5 Mm 9 Sb Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Wed 3:00amWed 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Wed 2 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed2 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:09am to 3:09am
    • Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Sunday 30 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 30 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1038 hours, and the record still lists it as active.