Awatchfire

Marion County, Oregon

Section 12 Fire

Burning 1.2 miles north-west of Mehama and 7.6 miles east of Sublimity, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Oregon. The Section 12 Fire burns 20 miles from Salem and 51 miles from Portland, and 20 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 20 miles from Salem and 51 miles from Portland.

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acreage not yet reported

41

hours burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 6:56am today

The Section 12 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 64 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 64 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Section 12 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

64hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:05pm on Wednesday, local time.

10,023% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

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 7.3 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 20 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 14 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: 44°F, air at 94% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-3 fire

The record here begins at 2:08pm on 26 Aug and runs to 3:03pm on 26 Aug — 1 hours, 10 readings of heat. The fire is on day 3, so the first 2 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 Section 12 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Wed 2:00pmWed 3:00pm

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 Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 10 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:08pm to 3:03pm
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 64 hours, and the record still lists it as active.