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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Friday 16 October
First reported at 1 acres
1 ac
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acreage not yet reported
9
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:38am today
The Tartar Gulch Rd Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Josephine 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.
9 hours
on record — first written down on Friday 16 October at 12:58am local time, starting at 1 acres.
42.111, -123.512lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 8.9 miles from the fire: 41°F, air at 87% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Althouse Creek Rd. 1111 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 0.6 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Happy Camp Rd 4905 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.7 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. West Side Rd 5565 Fire started on Wednesday 14 October, 8.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Airport Dr 116 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 8.7 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Kerby Mainline Rd. MM 1 Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 9.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kerby Mainline Rd MM 2 Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 9.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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.