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Yakima County, Washington

Buck Camp Fire

Burning 16.1 miles north of Glenwood and 21.9 miles north-east of Trout Lake, since Wednesday 12 August.

Map of Washington. The Buck Camp Fire burns 41 miles from Yakima and 62 miles from Ellensburg, and 95 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 41 miles from Yakima and 62 miles from Ellensburg.

20

acres burned so far

64

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Buck Camp Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 20 acres in Yakima 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

46people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

64 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 12 August at 7:05am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.255, -121.262lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.3 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 71% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-east.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Camp Chapperal Fire started on Monday 7 September, 2.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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. Wednesday 12 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    20 acres on record — 96% contained, 46 personnel assigned

    20 ac · 96% held · 46 crew
  3. Friday 28 August

    Containment 100%

    20 ac · 100% held · 46 crew