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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Tuesday 2 June
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
134
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 Pheasant Creek 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.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
134 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 2 June at 2:46pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
43.505, -123.655lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 14.9 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 75% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Bottle Creek Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 8.8 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. 3661 Road Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 8.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Murdock Fire started on Tuesday 7 July, 12.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Oak Hill Rd Fire started on Tuesday 16 June, 15.0 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Crouch Rd Fire started on Saturday 20 June, 15.1 miles south-east, and has reached 10 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 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 143 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.