Awatchfire

Klamath County, Oregon

Pelican Butte Fire

Burning 5.6 miles north of Rocky Point and 12.1 miles west of Oregon Shores, since Saturday 3 October.

Map of Oregon. The Pelican Butte Fire burns 38 miles from Medford and 115 miles from Bend, and 172 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 38 miles from Medford and 115 miles from Bend.

0

acres burned so far

11

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Pelican Butte Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Klamath 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.

11 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 3 October at 3:56pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.511, -122.155lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.4 miles from the fire: 33°F, air at 85% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-west.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. 392 Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. 390 Fire started 191 minutes before this one, 3.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 352 Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 5.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sky Fire started on Friday 4 September, 8.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 332 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 11.4 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 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. Saturday 3 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 3 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Saturday 3 October

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac