Awatchfire

Polk County, Oregon

Rowell Fire

Burning 6.0 miles south of Willamina and 6.5 miles south-east of Fort Hill, since Saturday 23 May.

Map of Oregon. The Rowell Fire burns 23 miles from Salem and 55 miles from Portland, and 23 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 23 miles from Salem and 55 miles from Portland.

0

acres burned so far

165

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:23am today

The Rowell Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Polk 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.

165 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 23 May at 5:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

44.991, -123.482lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.5 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 100% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Fort Hill Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 6.5 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Oak Fire started on Monday 12 October, 7.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. NonSTAT Rock Creek Rd Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 7.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Trailer Fire started on Friday 16 October, 8.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Webb Lane Fire started on Monday 28 September, 9.0 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 seven times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 12:10pm and 4:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 24 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 23 May

    First reported

  2. Thursday 5 November

    0 acres on record

    0 ac