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Yakima County, Washington

Ahtanum # 2 Fire

Burning 1.5 miles south-west of Union Gap and 2.9 miles north-west of Parker, since Friday 28 August.

Map of Washington. The Ahtanum # 2 Fire burns 4 miles from Yakima and 32 miles from Ellensburg, and 118 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 4 miles from Yakima and 32 miles from Ellensburg.

19

acres burned so far

48

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Ahtanum # 2 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 19 acres in Yakima County, Washington. 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

48 days

on record — first written down on Friday 28 August at 8:16am local time, starting at 1 acres.

46.534, -120.505lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Pleasant Fire started on Friday 5 June, 11.3 miles north-west, and has reached 3 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Friday 28 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac
  2. Friday 28 August

    1 acres on record

    1 ac
  3. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 19 acres

    19 ac