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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Saturday 12 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
32
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 Sykes Creek Rd 1615 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record 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.
32 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 1:49pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.569, -123.136lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.5 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 32% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. E Evans Creek Rd 4825 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 5.3 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. E Evans Creek Rd 18000 Fire started on Friday 10 July, 7.2 miles east, and has reached 15,580 acres with 12 people assigned. Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 9.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Foothill Blvd 5651 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 9.7 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Rock Creek Rd 415 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 9.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Fielder Mtn Fire started on Thursday 13 August, 10.8 miles south, and has reached 573 acres with 148 people assigned. 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 three 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.