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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.

55,133

acres burned so far — about 86 square miles

22

days burning so far

75%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The Wrights Spring Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 35 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 35 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

35hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:20am on Thursday, 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 30 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 1.4 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 26% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

Six days of record on a day-24 fire

The record here begins at 2:17am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:19am on 27 Aug — 121 hours, 93 readings of heat. The fire is on day 24, so the first 18 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, 43 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 6 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 Auglatest

    Today so far

    • 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

75% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 558 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 55,133 now. Nothing has looked at it for 35 hours, and the record still lists it as active.