Awatchfire

Jackson County, Oregon

Woodrat Mountain Fire

Burning 2.0 miles east of Ruch and 6.4 miles south of Jacksonville, since Thursday 6 August.

Map of Oregon. The Woodrat Mountain Fire burns 11 miles from Medford and 127 miles from Eugene, and 187 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 11 miles from Medford and 127 miles from Eugene.

282

acres burned so far — about 0.4 square miles

69

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Woodrat Mountain Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 282 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

55people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

69 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 6 August at 12:23pm local time, starting at 5 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

42.223, -123.002lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.6 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 24% humidity, a 19 mph wind out of the south.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Griffin Creek Rd 4876 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 5.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. W Griffin Creek Rd. 3591 Fire started on Friday 18 September, 5.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Neville Ln 2940 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 6.0 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Anderson Butte Rd MM4 Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 7.2 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Hinkle Gulch Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 8.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Kane Creek Rd Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 9.8 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 1:10pm 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. Thursday 6 August

    First reported at 5 acres

    5 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    282 acres on record — 100% contained, 55 personnel assigned

    282 ac · 100% held · 55 crew