Awatchfire

Josephine County, Oregon

Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire

Burning 4.1 miles north of Merlin and 11.0 miles north of Redwood, since Tuesday 15 September.

Map of Oregon. The Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire burns 33 miles from Medford and 103 miles from Eugene, and 163 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 33 miles from Medford and 103 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

29

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres 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.

29 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 15 September at 4:57pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.579, -123.419lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.0 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 48% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Opal Ln 500 Fire started on Monday 12 October, 2.2 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Crow Rd 2275 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 3.6 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hog Creek Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 4.2 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Pinecrest Dr 1255 Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 8.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. NFCA Grandview Ave 422 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 12.1 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Patrick Rd 129 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 12.7 miles south, 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 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.

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. Tuesday 15 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 15 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac