Awatchfire

Josephine County, Oregon

R Fork Quartz Crk Fire

Burning 6.5 miles north of Merlin and 9.1 miles south of Glendale, since Saturday 31 January.

Map of Oregon. The R Fork Quartz Crk Fire burns 37 miles from Medford and 102 miles from Eugene, and 161 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 37 miles from Medford and 102 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

260

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:05am today

The R Fork Quartz Crk Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Josephine 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.

260 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 31 January at 9:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.610, -123.468lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.1 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 83% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 3.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Hog Creek Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Crow Rd 2275 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 4.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Opal Ln 500 Fire started on Monday 12 October, 5.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. McCoy Creek Rd. Fire started on Tuesday 28 July, 9.0 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pinecrest Dr 1255 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 11.4 miles south-east, 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 8:10am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 119 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 31 January

    First reported

  2. Monday 19 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac