Awatchfire

Kittitas County, Washington

Alliance Road Fire

Burning 1.1 miles north-west of Cle Elum and 3.7 miles south-east of Ronald, since Monday 31 August.

Map of Washington. The Alliance Road Fire burns 24 miles from Ellensburg and 47 miles from Yakima, and 92 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 24 miles from Ellensburg and 47 miles from Yakima.

0

acres burned so far

44

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Alliance Road Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 198 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 198 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Alliance Road 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

198hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:30am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

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

4.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Cle Elum 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 Ronald is 2.0 miles, None in the last day.

3.1miles

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 11:00am and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 191 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 13.9 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 72% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-46 fire

The record here begins at 3:13am on 6 Oct and runs to 3:32am on 7 Oct — 24 hours, 4 readings of heat. The fire is on day 46, so the first 44 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 Alliance Road Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 31 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 3:00amWed 3:00am

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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Tue 6 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue6 Oct

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 3:13am to 1:55pm
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  2. Map for Wed 7 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed7 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 67% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:54am to 3:32am
    • Spread 3.0 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. Monday 31 August

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

  2. Tuesday 1 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 2 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 198 hours, and the record still lists it as active.