The official record as of 9:09am 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.
90% held
90% of the perimeter is being reported as held.
34people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
70 days
on record — first written down on
Wednesday 5 August
at 10:42am local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 4 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
46.703, -121.594lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 2.2 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 96% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-west.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Plummer Peak Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 7.5 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Carlton Pass Fire started on Wednesday 22 July, 8.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Willame Creek Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 10.2 miles south-west, and has reached 1 acres. Skyo Fire started on Wednesday 22 July, 10.7 miles south-west, and has reached 254 acres with 10 people assigned. 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.
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Wednesday 5 August
First reported
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Sunday 23 August
17 acres on record — 26% contained, 142 personnel assigned
17 ac · 26% held · 142 crew
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Monday 24 August
Containment 35% — 138 personnel
17 ac · 35% held · 138 crew
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Tuesday 25 August
Containment 40% — 151 personnel
17 ac · 40% held · 151 crew
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Wednesday 26 August
Containment 64% — 108 personnel
17 ac · 64% held · 108 crew
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Thursday 27 August
Containment 89% — 98 personnel
17 ac · 89% held · 98 crew
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Tuesday 8 September
Containment 90% — 34 personnel
17 ac · 90% held · 34 crew
