Awatchfire

Yamhill County, Oregon

NonSTAT Rock Creek Rd Fire

Burning 1.4 miles west of Sheridan and 3.2 miles north-east of Willamina, since Thursday 20 August.

Map of Oregon. The NonSTAT Rock Creek Rd Fire burns 23 miles from Salem and 48 miles from Portland, and 23 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 23 miles from Salem and 48 miles from Portland.

0

acres burned so far

55

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:37pm today

The NonSTAT Rock Creek Rd Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 3 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the NonSTAT Rock Creek Rd 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 Where another fire is recorded

3hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:30pm on Thursday, local time.

1readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

1.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Sheridan at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.2 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Willamina is 3.0 miles, 3.2 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

1.1miles

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

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Fort Hill Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 3.6 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Oak Fire started on Monday 12 October, 3.8 miles west, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 192 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 13.3 miles from the fire: 82°F, air at 28% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-57 fire

The record here begins at 1:59pm on 24 Aug and runs to 1:29pm on 15 Oct — 1248 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 57, so the first 55 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.

Animated map of the NonSTAT Rock Creek Rd Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 419 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 2 days of record

  1. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 1:59pm to 1:59pm
    • Spread 1.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 33% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:29pm to 1:29pm
    • Spread 0.3 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. Thursday 20 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.