The Trail Fire is the largest of many lightning-strike fires in SW Oregon (most of the JoCo fires are/were small and many of these are already extinguished or controlled. None of them has created enough heat to be recorded by satellite sensors.)
The Trail Fire is located a mile or 2 east of Diamond Lake. It is south of the Lemolo fire (now listed at 15 acres) and north of the Middle Fork fire (35 acres).
There's not yet a lot of definitive information available for these fires.
That means I can find nothing about crews or equpment assigned other than what I reported yesterday, and in my mind, even that information is questionable, since they are absent from this morning's NWCC fire report.
Yesterday I saw Trail Fire's acreage listed at 400 acres, 600 acres and 1000 acres. This morning, the official NWCC site lists its acreage at 800 acres.
These are estimates and they are not based on an IR overflight or ground-pounders (that's a term I use with reverence) walking the perimeter with GPS receivers, both of which would be the quite accurate. Some of those estimates are generated by Artificial Intelligence (like the 1000 acre figure), some by WAEG (Wild Assed Educated Guess). But it's the best we have right now.
For the time being, I'm guessing 800 acres, without evidence.
About all I have today, at least so far, are 2 satellite maps. The first is an overview of SW Oregon. Notice the lack of heat anywhere near Grants Pass. Click to enlarge.
The second map is a zoomed-in version of the overview to show both Lemolo and Trail fires. Click to enlarge.
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