Awatchfire

Josephine County, Oregon

Lower River Rd 5863 Fire

Burning 2.1 miles north-west of Redwood and 4.9 miles west of Grants Pass, since Tuesday 20 October.

Map of Oregon. The Lower River Rd 5863 Fire burns 30 miles from Medford and 113 miles from Eugene, and 173 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 30 miles from Medford and 113 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 5:03pm today

The Lower River Rd 5863 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Tuesday 20 October at 3:30pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.437, -123.428lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.3 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 40% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Pinecrest Dr 1255 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 3.0 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Patrick Rd 129 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 3.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Stringer Gap Rd 2250 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. New hope rd 3146 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 4.6 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. NFCA Grandview Ave 422 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 5.3 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Keen Rd 478 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 5.4 miles south, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 151 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. Tuesday 20 October

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 20 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac