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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Thursday 15 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
2
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 3:41pm today
The W Fork Whiskey Creek 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.
2 hours
on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 1:58pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.697, -123.662lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 6.7 miles from the fire: 79°F, air at 22% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-west.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Hog Creek Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 13.5 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Crow Rd 2275 Fire started on Wednesday 23 September, 14.7 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Tunnel Loop Rd. 5575 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 14.8 miles south-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 thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 30 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.