Awatchfire

Klickitat County, Washington

Avery Fire

Burning 3.5 miles west of Wishram and 6.4 miles east of Dallesport, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of Washington. The Avery Fire burns 68 miles from Yakima and 95 miles from Ellensburg, and 130 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 68 miles from Yakima and 95 miles from Ellensburg.

50

acres burned so far

49

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Avery Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 50 acres in Klickitat 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

49 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 26 August at 5:26pm local time, starting at 50 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

45.665, -121.045lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 24.1 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 82% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Celilo Park Fire started on Saturday 20 June, 4.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. West 8 Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 8.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Orchard Road Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 11.6 miles south-west, and has reached 150 acres. Canyon Creek Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 14.5 miles north, and has reached 0 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.

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. Wednesday 26 August

    First reported at 50 acres

    50 ac
  2. Sunday 30 August

    50 acres on record

    50 ac