Awatchfire

Chelan County, Washington

Brown Fire

Burning 7.6 miles north of Chelan and 7.7 miles south of Pateros, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Washington. The Brown Fire burns 71 miles from Ellensburg and 98 miles from Yakima, and 151 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 71 miles from Ellensburg and 98 miles from Yakima.

1

acres burned so far

53

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Brown Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Chelan 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

53 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 22 August at 11:12am local time, starting at 1 acres.

47.948, -119.956lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 13.5 miles from the fire: 46°F, air at 65% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Washington Fire started 4 minutes before this one, 1.5 miles south-west, and has reached 30 acres. Water Tower Fire started 4 minutes after this one, 4.3 miles west, and has reached 1 acres. Mcginty Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 5.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cougar Fire started on Thursday 4 June, 6.7 miles north-east, and has reached 2 acres. Cooper Fire started 63 minutes before this one, 8.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Ivan Fire started on Saturday 30 May, 9.1 miles west, and has reached 3 acres. 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.

  1. Saturday 22 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    1 acres on record

    1 ac