Awatchfire

Lake County, Oregon

Ma #16 Fire

Burning 1.8 miles south of Lakeview and 11.6 miles north of New Pine Creek, since Monday 31 August.

Map of Oregon. The Ma #16 Fire burns 129 miles from Medford and 139 miles from Bend, and 233 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 129 miles from Medford and 139 miles from Bend.

4

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 Ma #16 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 4 acres in Lake 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.

44 days

on record — first written down on Monday 31 August at 1:52pm local time, starting at 2 acres.

42.166, -120.346lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.6 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 48% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. 336 Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles west, and has reached 2 acres. Plume Fire started on Sunday 5 July, 7.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 400 Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 10.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. 348 Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 12.1 miles north, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Monday 31 August

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac
  2. Monday 31 August

    2 acres on record

    2 ac
  3. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 4 acres

    4 ac