Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Magnum Fire

Burning 26.1 miles north of Prospect and 27.8 miles south-east of Glide, since Wednesday 22 July.

Map of Oregon. The Magnum Fire burns 56 miles from Medford and 70 miles from Eugene, and 126 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 56 miles from Medford and 70 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

84

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Magnum Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

84 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 22 July at 5:56pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.125, -122.572lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.4 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 35% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the west.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Castle Fire started 2 minutes before this one, 0.9 miles south-east, and has reached 3,615 acres with 114 people assigned. Cf - 356 Rd Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 4.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. 500 rd Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 7.2 miles west, 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 185 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. Wednesday 22 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 27 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac