Awatchfire

Okanogan County, Washington

Butterweed Fire

Burning 1.6 miles south-west of Winthrop and 7.3 miles north-west of Twisp, since Friday 23 October.

Map of Washington. The Butterweed Fire burns 102 miles from Ellensburg and 106 miles from Bellingham, and 159 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 102 miles from Ellensburg and 106 miles from Bellingham.

0

acres burned so far

3

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 12:48pm today

The Butterweed 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 Friday 23 October at 10:15am local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.452, -120.198lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.2 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 44% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. South Apple Fire started on Tuesday 4 August, 2.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Ramsey Peak Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 6.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Elderberry Fire started on Monday 19 October, 13.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Six Mile Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 14.7 miles north-west, 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 eight times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 44 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. Friday 23 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 23 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac