Awatchfire

Lewis County, Washington

Backbone Fire

Burning 7.5 miles north-east of Packwood and 20.3 miles east of Ashford, since Wednesday 5 August.

Map of Washington. The Backbone Fire burns 50 miles from Yakima and 53 miles from Ellensburg, and 66 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 50 miles from Yakima and 53 miles from Ellensburg.

17

acres burned so far

23

days burning so far

89%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Backbone Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 17 acres in Lewis 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.

89% held

89% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

98people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

23 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 5 August at 10:42am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.703, -121.594lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.