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.
-
Monday 12 October
First reported at 1 acres
1 ac
—
acreage not yet reported
2
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Opal Ln 500 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.
2 days
on record — first written down on Monday 12 October at 4:21pm local time, starting at 1 acres.
42.552, -123.397lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.9 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. Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 2.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Crow Rd 2275 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 3.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hog Creek Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pinecrest Dr 1255 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 6.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. NFCA Grandview Ave 422 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 10.0 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Patrick Rd 129 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 10.8 miles south, 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.