Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Obenchain 1888 Fire

Burning 6.0 miles south-west of Butte Falls and 7.2 miles east of Eagle Point, since Wednesday 9 September.

Map of Oregon. The Obenchain 1888 Fire burns 14 miles from Medford and 111 miles from Eugene, and 169 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 14 miles from Medford and 111 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

35

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Obenchain 1888 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

35 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 9 September at 1:40pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.490, -122.664lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.4 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 24% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the south.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Plum Creek Ln Fire started on Thursday 1 October, 6.1 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Reese creek Rd 1290 Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 6.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Highway 62 17460 Fire started on Saturday 3 October, 8.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Hammel Rd 1501 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 9.4 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. PP #01335001309000 Pine Gate Wy Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 9.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Butte Falls Prospect Rd 4000 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 9.9 miles north-east, and has reached 2 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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. Wednesday 9 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 9 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac