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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Friday 30 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
2
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 5:26pm today
The Salmon Gulch Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
2 hours
on record — first written down on Friday 30 October at 3:55pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.651, -123.363lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 10.5 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 52% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. McCoy Creek Rd. Fire started on Tuesday 28 July, 3.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 5.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. R Fork Quartz Crk Fire started on Saturday 31 January, 6.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Opal Ln 500 Fire started on Monday 12 October, 7.1 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Crow Rd 2275 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 9.3 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hog Creek Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 9.7 miles south-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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 241 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.