Awatchfire

Klamath County, Oregon

Wrights Spring Fire

Burning 10.2 miles south-east of Chiloquin and 10.9 miles south-east of Oregon Shores, since Wednesday 5 August.

Map of Oregon. The Wrights Spring Fire burns 58 miles from Medford and 112 miles from Bend, and 181 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 58 miles from Medford and 112 miles from Bend.

55,134

acres burned so far — about 86 square miles

70

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Wrights Spring Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1062 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1062 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Wrights Spring 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

1062hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:05am on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

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

13.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Chiloquin at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Oregon Shores is 13.9 miles, None in the last day.

5.8miles

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 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.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 11.2 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 44% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Nine days of record on a day-72 fire

The record here begins at 2:17am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:06am on 1 Sep — 241 hours, 98 readings of heat. The fire is on day 72, so the first 63 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.

Animated map of the Wrights Spring Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 83 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 9 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 16 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:17am to 3:13am
    • Spread 5.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 18 heat readings
    • Energy 4.9 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:58am to 2:18pm
    • Spread 5.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  3. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 22 heat readings
    • Energy 1.5 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:37am to 9:19pm
    • Spread 5.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  4. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 24 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 64% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:02am to 3:38am
    • Spread 5.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 7 heat readings
    • Energy 74% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:43am to 3:19am
    • Spread 5.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  6. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    Holding

    • 6 heat readings
    • Energy 22% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:00am to 3:19am
    • Spread 4.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  7. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 86% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:09am to 3:09am
    • Spread 4.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  8. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 3 heat readings
    • Energy 4.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:49am to 3:26am
    • Spread 4.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  9. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 75% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:06am to 3:06am
    • Spread 4.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Wednesday 5 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    54,365 acres on record — 55% contained, 799 personnel assigned

    54,365 ac · 55% held · 799 crew

  3. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 54,492 acres — containment 65%, 793 personnel

    54,492 ac · 65% held · 793 crew

  4. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 55,131 acres — 737 personnel

    55,131 ac · 65% held · 737 crew

  5. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 55,133 acres — 667 personnel

    55,133 ac · 65% held · 667 crew

  6. Thursday 27 August

    Containment 75% — 558 personnel

    55,133 ac · 75% held · 558 crew

  7. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 55,134 acres — 543 personnel

    55,134 ac · 75% held · 543 crew

  8. Saturday 29 August

    Containment 85% — 423 personnel

    55,134 ac · 85% held · 423 crew

  9. Sunday 30 August

    Containment 90% — 359 personnel

    55,134 ac · 90% held · 359 crew

  10. Monday 31 August

    Containment 95% — 243 personnel

    55,134 ac · 95% held · 243 crew

  11. Monday 7 September

    Containment 98% — 134 personnel

    55,134 ac · 98% held · 134 crew

  12. Friday 25 September

    Containment 97% — 29 personnel

    55,134 ac · 97% held · 29 crew

  13. Tuesday 6 October

    Containment 100% — 1 personnel

    55,134 ac · 100% held · 1 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 1 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 55,134 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1062 hours, and the record still lists it as active.