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 23 June
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
113
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 Plat I Rd 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.
Human
is the cause on the official record.
113 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 23 June at 1:54pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
43.411, -123.232lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 16.4 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 66% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Old Pioneer Fire started on Wednesday 17 June, 0.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Northside #2 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 2.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Cooper Fire started on Sunday 14 June, 3.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. I-5 MP 134 NB Median Fire started on Wednesday 22 July, 7.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Turkey Hill Fire started on Sunday 21 June, 7.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Churchill Rd. Fire started on Wednesday 17 June, 7.8 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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.