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.
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Tuesday 13 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
42
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The McGowan Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Lane 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.
42 hours
on record — first written down on Tuesday 13 October at 3:39pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
44.151, -122.952lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 13.8 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 98% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Courtney Creek 100 Fire started on Friday 11 September, 13.8 miles north, and has reached 2 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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 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.