Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

W Fork Evans Creek Fire

Burning 8.8 miles north-east of Wimer and 10.8 miles west of Shady Cove, since Thursday 15 October.

Map of Oregon. The W Fork Evans Creek Fire burns 23 miles from Medford and 98 miles from Eugene, and 158 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 23 miles from Medford and 98 miles from Eugene.

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acreage not yet reported

8

hours burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 11:35pm today

The W Fork Evans Creek Fire is easing, but far from out. Ground was still giving off heat 3 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the W Fork Evans Creek Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

3hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 8:45pm on Thursday, local time.

83% less

energy in the last 3.2 hours of the record than in the 3.2 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

7.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Wimer at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 7.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Shady Cove is 10.6 miles, 10.6 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

1.4miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. E Evans Creek Rd 18000 Fire started on Friday 10 July, 3.0 miles south-east, and has reached 15,580 acres with 12 people assigned. Ramsey Canyon Rd Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 2.2 miles east, 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 7 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

One place is burning

At the point on the record

13 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 5.2 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 16% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:25pm on 15 Oct and runs to 8:45pm on 15 Oct — 6 hours, 13 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the W Fork Evans Creek Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 13 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Thu 2:00pmThu 8:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 13 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:25pm to 8:45pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon and evening

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. Thursday 15 October

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.