Awatchfire

Coos County, Oregon

Welch Road Fire

Burning 1.7 miles north-east of Barview and 2.9 miles west of Coos Bay, since Sunday 9 August.

Map of Oregon. The Welch Road Fire burns 75 miles from Eugene and 102 miles from Medford, and 124 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 75 miles from Eugene and 102 miles from Medford.

0

acres burned so far

66

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Welch Road Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Coos 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.

66 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 9 August at 9:40am local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.369, -124.289lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. 398 Cc Fire started on Monday 12 October, 6.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Windy Cove Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 9.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Beaver Slough Fire started on Saturday 11 July, 11.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. South Tenmile Lake Fire started on Friday 21 August, 14.7 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Falling Tree Fire started on Friday 21 August, 14.9 miles north, 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 23 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. Sunday 9 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac