Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Loop Rd. Fire

Burning 1.1 miles west of Tri-City and 3.1 miles north-east of Riddle, since Friday 3 July.

Map of Oregon. The Loop Rd. Fire burns 51 miles from Medford and 75 miles from Eugene, and 135 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 51 miles from Medford and 75 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

104

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Loop Rd. Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 619 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 619 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Loop Rd. 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

619hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:10pm on Saturday, local time.

0readings

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

1.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Tri-City 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 Riddle is 2.3 miles, None in the last day.

1.1miles

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

Nine other fires are burning inside the same view. Days Creek Cutoff Fire started on Friday 12 June, 4.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Gazley Rd. Fire started on Tuesday 16 June, 4.6 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Little Gazley Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 4.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. North Gazley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Old Booth Fire started on Sunday 14 June, 4.2 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Packard Gulch Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 4.1 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pruner Fire started on Thursday 30 July, 2.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Riddle Bypass Rd Fire started on Thursday 23 July, 3.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. South Myrtle Rd Fire started on Sunday 21 June, 4.7 miles north-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 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.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 23.2 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 36% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-105 fire

The record here begins at 1:36pm on 18 Sep and runs to 2:12pm on 19 Sep — 25 hours, 12 readings of heat. The fire is on day 105, so the first 103 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 Loop Rd. Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 32 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

Fri 1:00pmSat 2:00pm

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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Fri 18 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri18 Sep

    First readings

    • 10 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 1:36pm to 2:31pm
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Sat 19 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat19 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 89% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:53pm to 2:12pm
    • Spread 1.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Friday 3 July

    First reported

  2. Monday 31 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 619 hours, and the record still lists it as active.