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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Sunday 21 June
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
115
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The South Myrtle Rd Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Douglas 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.
115 days
on record — first written down on Sunday 21 June at 8:42pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
43.028, -123.246lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Packard Gulch Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 2.8 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Days Creek Cutoff Fire started on Friday 12 June, 2.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Big Lick Lane Fire started on Wednesday 15 July, 3.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Beckworth Fire started on Monday 6 July, 4.3 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Old Booth Fire started on Sunday 14 June, 4.4 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Loop Rd. Fire started on Friday 3 July, 4.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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.