Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire

Burning 8.6 miles west of Shady Cove and 8.7 miles west of Trail, since Sunday 11 October.

Map of Oregon. The Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire burns 22 miles from Medford and 98 miles from Eugene, and 158 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 22 miles from Medford and 98 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

3

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 91 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 91 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

91hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:00pm on Sunday, local time.

8% less

energy in the last 1.8 hours of the record than in the 1.8 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

8.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Shady Cove at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Trail is 8.3 miles, None in the last day.

0.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. E Evans Creek Rd 18000 Fire started on Friday 10 July, 2.8 miles south, and has reached 15,580 acres with 12 people assigned. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three 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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 7.0 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 32% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-5 fire

The record here begins at 10:20am on 11 Oct and runs to 1:59pm on 11 Oct — 4 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 5, so the first 4 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 10 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Sun 10:00amSun 1:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sun 11 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun11 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 10:20am to 1:59pm
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the morning and afternoon

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. Sunday 11 October

    First reported

  2. Sunday 11 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 91 hours, and the record still lists it as active.