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 7 July
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
99
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Murdock Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
99 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 7 July at 11:12am local time, starting at 0 acres.
43.415, -123.442lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 16.5 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 66% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Crouch Rd Fire started on Saturday 20 June, 2.9 miles south-east, and has reached 10 acres. Fort McKay Scott Henry Fire started on Thursday 4 June, 3.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Oak Hill Rd Fire started on Tuesday 16 June, 3.9 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Bottle Creek Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 4.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Woodruff Mountain Rd. Fire started on Wednesday 3 June, 7.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Turkey Hill Fire started on Sunday 21 June, 7.5 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.