Burning 3.1 miles north-west of Myrtle Creek and 4.3 miles north of Tri-City, since Sunday 14 June.
The fire sits 55 miles from Medford and 71 miles from Eugene.
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acreage not yet reported
122
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Old Booth Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 545 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 545 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
545hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:25pm on Tuesday, local time.
58% more
energy in the last 1.2 hours of the record
than in the 1.2 before them — the fire was
hotter when it was last seen.
3.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Myrtle Creek 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 Tri-City is 4.9 miles, None in the last day.
1.7miles
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. Loop Rd. Fire started on Friday 3 July, 4.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. South Myrtle Rd Fire started on Sunday 21 June, 4.4 miles 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 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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 22.3 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 35% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the east.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-124 fire
The record here begins at 1:59pm on 22 Sep and runs to 4:26pm on 22 Sep — 2 hours, 8 readings of heat. The fire is on day 124, so the first 123 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.
The whole record, 10 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 1:00pmTue 4:00pm
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
Tue22 Seplatest
First readings
8 heat readings
Heat from 1:59pm to 4:26pm
Spread 1.7 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.
Sunday 14 June
First reported
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 545 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
