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.
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Sunday 6 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
38
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Packard Gulch Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Douglas 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.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
38 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 6 September at 2:46pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.987, -123.239lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Days Creek Cutoff Fire started on Friday 12 June, 0.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Beckworth Fire started on Monday 6 July, 1.9 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Gazley Rd. Fire started on Tuesday 16 June, 2.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Little Gazley Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. South Myrtle Rd Fire started on Sunday 21 June, 2.8 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. North Gazley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.4 miles south-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.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground six 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.