Awatchfire

Asotin County, Washington

Ayers Fire

Burning 4.6 miles south-west of Asotin and 6.6 miles south of Clarkston Heights-Vineland, since Tuesday 1 September.

Map of Washington. The Ayers Fire burns 97 miles from Spokane and 166 miles from Yakima, and 280 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 97 miles from Spokane and 166 miles from Yakima.

15

acres burned so far

43

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Ayers Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 15 acres in Asotin 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.

43 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 1 September at 1:50pm local time, starting at 5 acres.

46.280, -117.096lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.5 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 65% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-west.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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. Tuesday 1 September

    First reported at 5 acres

    5 ac
  2. Tuesday 1 September

    5 acres on record

    5 ac
  3. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 60 acres

    60 ac
  4. Tuesday 1 September

    Revised to 15 acres

    15 ac