Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

M Line Fire

Burning 15.7 miles north of Elkton and 17.0 miles south-east of Mapleton, since Tuesday 1 September.

Map of Oregon. The M Line Fire burns 28 miles from Eugene and 79 miles from Salem, and 79 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 28 miles from Eugene and 79 miles from Salem.

2

acres burned so far

44

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The M Line Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in Douglas 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.

44 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 1 September at 4:33am local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.862, -123.620lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.8 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 75% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north.

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 143 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 1 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 1 September

    2 acres on record

    2 ac