Awatchfire

Okanogan County, Washington

Bear Fight Fire

Burning 7.5 miles north-west of Winthrop and 15.6 miles north-west of Twisp, since Monday 2 November.

Map of Washington. The Bear Fight Fire burns 102 miles from Bellingham and 109 miles from Ellensburg, and 161 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 102 miles from Bellingham and 109 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

3

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:44pm today

The Bear Fight Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Okanogan 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.

3 hours

on record — first written down on Monday 2 November at 12:43pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.565, -120.264lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.0 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 50% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Ramsey Peak Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Six Mile Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 6.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. South Apple Fire started on Tuesday 4 August, 6.6 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Butterweed Fire started on Friday 23 October, 8.4 miles south, 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 13 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 10:00am and 1:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 24 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. Monday 2 November

    First reported

  2. Monday 2 November

    0 acres on record

    0 ac