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 4 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
10
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 Kerby Mainline Rd MM 2 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.
10 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 4 October at 9:57am local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.219, -123.622lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 8.6 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 82% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Kerby Mainline Rd. MM 1 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 1.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Three Mill Rd 774 Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 2.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lakeshore Dr. 990 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 3.9 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. West Side Rd 5565 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 6.1 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Airport Dr 116 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 8.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Althouse Creek Rd. 1111 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 9.6 miles south-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 five 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.