Awatchfire

Yakima County, Washington

2040 Newland Rd Fire

Burning 6.4 miles west of Mabton and 7.5 miles south of Outlook, since Tuesday 13 October.

Map of Washington. The 2040 Newland Rd Fire burns 32 miles from Yakima and 57 miles from Ellensburg, and 143 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 32 miles from Yakima and 57 miles from Ellensburg.

16

acres burned so far

43

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The 2040 Newland Rd Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 42 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 42 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the 2040 Newland Rd 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 Where another fire is recorded

42hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45pm on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

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

6.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Mabton 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 Outlook is 7.4 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Colwash Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached 39,103 acres with 4 people assigned. Newquist & Sampson Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 2.3 miles north-west, and has reached 77 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 22.3 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 66% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-3 fire

The record here begins at 2:44pm on 13 Oct and runs to 2:44pm on 13 Oct — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 3, so the first 2 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the 2040 Newland Rd Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Tue 2:00pmTue 2:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Tue 13 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue13 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:44pm to 2:44pm
    • Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Tuesday 13 October

    First reported at 10 acres

    10 ac

  2. Tuesday 13 October

    10 acres on record

    10 ac

  3. Tuesday 13 October

    Grew to 16 acres

    16 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 10 acres when it was first written down to 16 now. Nothing has looked at it for 42 hours, and the record still lists it as active.