Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Morrison Creek Rd MM 2.5 Fire

Burning 8.3 miles west of Trail and 8.6 miles north-west of Shady Cove, since Friday 23 October.

Map of Oregon. The Morrison Creek Rd MM 2.5 Fire burns 23 miles from Medford and 97 miles from Eugene, and 157 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 23 miles from Medford and 97 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

6

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:57pm today

The Morrison Creek Rd MM 2.5 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Jackson 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.

6 hours

on record — first written down on Friday 23 October at 10:11am local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.653, -122.976lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.6 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 38% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 0.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. W Fork Evans Creek Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 2.6 miles west, and has reached 283 acres with 176 people assigned. E Evans Creek Rd 18000 Fire started on Friday 10 July, 3.7 miles south, and has reached 15,580 acres with 12 people assigned. Ironwood Dr 176 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 9.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Sykes Creek Rd 1615 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 10.0 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hammel Rd 1501 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 10.2 miles south-east, 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 11 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 72 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. Friday 23 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 23 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac