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 18 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
1
hour burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 7:49pm today
The Upper Cow Creek 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.
1 hour
on record — first written down on Sunday 18 October at 6:48pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.828, -123.181lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 16.3 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 42% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mp 89 Fire started on Monday 22 June, 4.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Mp 94 Fire started on Tuesday 30 June, 5.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Canyon Creek Fire started on Monday 7 September, 6.3 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Little Gazley Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 9.1 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. North Gazley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 9.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Dietch Creek Fire started on Friday 15 May, 9.2 miles north, 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 12 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 51 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.