Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

N Umpqua Hwy 14000 Fire

Burning 5.3 miles west of Glide and 8.2 miles south of Fair Oaks, since Friday 12 June.

Map of Oregon. The N Umpqua Hwy 14000 Fire burns 53 miles from Eugene and 68 miles from Medford, and 113 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 53 miles from Eugene and 68 miles from Medford.

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acreage not yet reported

124

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The N Umpqua Hwy 14000 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 377 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 377 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the N Umpqua Hwy 14000 Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

377hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:55pm on Tuesday, local time.

576% more

energy in the last 0.9 hours of the record than in the 0.9 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

5.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Glide at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Fair Oaks is 5.8 miles, None in the last day.

2.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 24.8 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 66% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-126 fire

The record here begins at 2:06pm on 29 Sep and runs to 3:57pm on 29 Sep — 2 hours, 10 readings of heat. The fire is on day 126, so the first 125 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the N Umpqua Hwy 14000 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Tue 2:00pmTue 3:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Tue 29 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue29 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 10 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:06pm to 3:57pm
    • Spread 2.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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 12 June

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 377 hours, and the record still lists it as active.