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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Monday 24 August
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
51
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 New hope rd 3146 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Josephine 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.
51 days
on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 6:24pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.398, -123.354lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 7.1 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 48% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Patrick Rd 129 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 1.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. NFCA Grandview Ave 422 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 1.9 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Stringer Gap Rd 2250 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 2.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Keen Rd 478 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Pinecrest Dr 1255 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 4.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. PP-1337005/ N Applegate Rd Fire started on Monday 21 September, 4.5 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm 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.