Awatchfire

Grant County, Washington

Black Rock 2 Fire

Burning 9.0 miles south of Wilson Creek and 10.5 miles south-west of Krupp, since Sunday 27 September.

Map of Washington. The Black Rock 2 Fire burns 70 miles from Ellensburg and 83 miles from Yakima, and 178 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 70 miles from Ellensburg and 83 miles from Yakima.

160

acres burned so far

17

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Black Rock 2 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 428 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 428 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Black Rock 2 Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

428hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:25pm on Sunday, local time.

41% less

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

8.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Wilson Creek at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Krupp is 9.8 miles, None in the last day.

0.7miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Nothing close enough to the fire has reported the conditions on the ground.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-19 fire

The record here begins at 12:28pm on 27 Sep and runs to 1:23pm on 27 Sep — 1 hours, 19 readings of heat. The fire is on day 19, so the first 18 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Black Rock 2 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Sun 12:00pmSun 1:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sun 27 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun27 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 19 heat readings
    • Heat from 12:28pm to 1:23pm
    • Spread 0.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Sunday 27 September

    First reported

  2. Sunday 27 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Sunday 27 September

    Grew to 160 acres

    160 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 160 now. Nothing has looked at it for 428 hours, and the record still lists it as active.