Awatchfire

Whitman County, Washington

Blyton Landing Fire

Burning 6.7 miles west of Colton and 9.0 miles west of Uniontown, since Wednesday 19 August.

Map of Washington. The Blyton Landing Fire burns 76 miles from Spokane and 156 miles from Yakima, and 268 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 76 miles from Spokane and 156 miles from Yakima.

120

acres burned so far

56

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Blyton Landing Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 42 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 42 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Blyton Landing 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

42hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45pm on Tuesday, local time.

60% less

energy in the last 0.8 hours of the record than in the 0.8 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

5.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Colton 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 Uniontown is 7.9 miles, None in the last day.

3.0miles

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

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground five times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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-58 fire

The record here begins at 1:04pm on 13 Oct and runs to 2:44pm on 13 Oct — 2 hours, 5 readings of heat. The fire is on day 58, so the first 57 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 Blyton Landing 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

Tue 1:00pmTue 2:00pm

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 Tue 13 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue13 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 5 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:04pm to 2:44pm
    • Spread 3.0 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. Wednesday 19 August

    First reported at 50 acres

    50 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    120 acres on record

    120 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 50 acres when it was first written down to 120 now. Nothing has looked at it for 42 hours, and the record still lists it as active.