Awatchfire

Douglas County, Oregon

Riddle Bypass Rd Fire

Burning 0.4 miles west of Riddle and 4.3 miles south-west of Tri-City, since Thursday 23 July.

Map of Oregon. The Riddle Bypass Rd Fire burns 50 miles from Medford and 77 miles from Eugene, and 137 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 50 miles from Medford and 77 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

83

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Riddle Bypass Rd Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres 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.

83 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 23 July at 9:55pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.956, -123.372lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 20.8 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 36% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Pruner Fire started on Thursday 30 July, 0.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Gravel Pit Lane Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 2.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Loop Rd. Fire started on Friday 3 July, 3.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. North Gazley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 5.3 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Blossom Fire started on Monday 15 June, 6.1 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Little Gazley Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 6.4 miles east, 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 four 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.

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. Thursday 23 July

    First reported

  2. Monday 31 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac