Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Sink Creek Fire

Burning 4.3 miles north-east of Prospect and 19.8 miles north of Butte Falls, since Sunday 30 August.

Map of Oregon. The Sink Creek Fire burns 39 miles from Medford and 93 miles from Eugene, and 149 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 39 miles from Medford and 93 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Sink Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Jackson 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.

45 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 30 August at 12:39pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.809, -122.431lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.8 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 26% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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. Sunday 30 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 30 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac