Awatchfire

Polk County, Oregon

Webb Lane Fire

Burning 1.3 miles north of Dallas and 3.8 miles west of Rickreall, since Monday 28 September.

Map of Oregon. The Webb Lane Fire burns 14 miles from Salem and 52 miles from Portland, and 14 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 14 miles from Salem and 52 miles from Portland.

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acreage not yet reported

17

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 5:44pm today

The Webb Lane Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 3 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Webb Lane 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

3hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:25pm on Thursday, local time.

1readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

2.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Dallas at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 2.7 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Rickreall is 1.2 miles, 1.2 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.

2.7miles

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

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 193 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 2.8 miles from the fire: 80°F, air at 31% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-18 fire

The record here begins at 2:25pm on 15 Oct and runs to 2:25pm on 15 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 18, so the first 17 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Webb Lane Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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 2:00pm

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

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:25pm to 2:25pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Monday 28 September

    First reported

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.