Burning 1.2 miles north-east of Fort Klamath and 11.3 miles north-west of Chiloquin, since Thursday 27 August.
The fire sits 52 miles from Medford and 98 miles from Bend.
0
acres burned so far
22
hours burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 4:12pm today
The Kimball Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 110 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 110 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
110hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:35am on Monday, local time.
368% more
energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record
than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was
hotter when it was last seen.
767.7miles
is how close the heat has come to Fort Klamath 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 Chiloquin is 759.5 miles, None in the last day.
767.4miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 328 Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 1.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Nfca #20 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.6 miles 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 32 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 10.6 miles from the fire: 80°F, air at 22% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-2 fire
The record here begins at 1:39am on 24 Aug and runs to 2:37am on 24 Aug — 1 hours, 5 readings of heat. The fire is on day 2, so the first day is 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.
The whole record, 8 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
Mon 1:00amMon 2:00am
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
Mon24 Auglatest
First readings
5 heat readings
Heat from 1:39am to 2:37am
Spread 767.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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 110 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
