Burning 1.2 miles north-west of Mehama and 7.6 miles east of Sublimity, since Thursday 27 August.
The fire sits 20 miles from Salem and 51 miles from Portland.
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acreage not yet reported
48
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Section 12 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 834 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 834 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
834hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:20pm on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
0.8miles
is how close the heat has come to Mehama 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 Sublimity is 5.7 miles, None in the last day.
2.0miles
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. Etzel Road Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 2.8 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 143 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 15.0 miles from the fire: 62°F, air at 42% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the east.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-50 fire
The record here begins at 2:08pm on 26 Aug and runs to 3:22pm on 10 Sep — 361 hours, 12 readings of heat. The fire is on day 50, so the first 48 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.
The whole record, 123 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 2 days of record
Wed26 Aug
First readings
10 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:08pm to 3:03pm
Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Thu10 Seplatest
Cooling off
2 heat readings
Energy 94% down on the day before
Heat from 3:22pm to 3:22pm
Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the 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.
Thursday 27 August
First reported at 1 acres
1 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 834 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
