Burning 5.3 miles north-east of Chiloquin and 9.0 miles north-east of Oregon Shores, since Sunday 30 August.
The fire sits 58 miles from Medford and 103 miles from Bend.
0
acres burned so far
45
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Outpost Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 510 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 510 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
510hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:55am on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
7.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Chiloquin 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 Oregon Shores is 10.9 miles, None in the last day.
1.9miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. 338 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 3.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. 345 Fire started on Monday 7 September, 3.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. 371 Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 2.8 miles north-west, 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.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Wrights Spring Fire 9.8 miles south at 55,134 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 2.5 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 51% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-47 fire
The record here begins at 2:56am on 24 Sep and runs to 2:56am on 24 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 47, so the first 46 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, 7 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
Thu 2:00amThu 2:00am
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
Thu24 Seplatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 2:56am to 2:56am
Spread 1.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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 30 August
First reported
Sunday 30 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. Nothing has looked at it for 510 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
