Awatchfire

Klamath County, Oregon

Water Tank Fire

Burning 0.6 miles north-west of Chemult and 5.9 miles north of Beaver Marsh, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Oregon. The Water Tank Fire burns 63 miles from Bend and 81 miles from Medford, and 133 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 63 miles from Bend and 81 miles from Medford.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Water Tank Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Klamath 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.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 11:52am local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.222, -121.792lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.4 miles from the fire: 63°F, air at 35% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 379 Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 10.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. 388 Fire started on Friday 2 October, 10.8 miles west, 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 25 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Tuesday 25 August

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac