Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Windburn Fire

Burning 3.5 miles south of Ashland and 7.8 miles south-east of Talent, since Thursday 3 September.

Map of Oregon. The Windburn Fire burns 15 miles from Medford and 134 miles from Eugene, and 193 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 15 miles from Medford and 134 miles from Eugene.

0

acres burned so far

41

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Windburn Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Jackson 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.

41 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 11:14am local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.142, -122.707lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.5 miles from the fire: 78°F, air at 22% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Wagner Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 3.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. I-5 Mm 9 Sb Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 5.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Twenty Road Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 5.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Ski Rd Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 6.3 miles south-east, and has reached 1 acres. Anderson Butte Rd MM4 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 9.0 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Neville Ln 2940 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 13.4 miles north-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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm 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. Thursday 3 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 3 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac