Awatchfire

Jefferson County, Washington

Cape George Fire

Burning 4.5 miles south-west of Port Townsend and 5.8 miles north-west of Port Hadlock-Irondale, since Saturday 31 October.

Map of Washington. The Cape George Fire burns 41 miles from Seattle and 49 miles from Bellingham, and 73 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 41 miles from Seattle and 49 miles from Bellingham.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 12:29pm today

The Cape George Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Jefferson 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.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 31 October at 10:20am local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.095, -122.876lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.8 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 100% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Nebula Fire started on Thursday 10 September, 7.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Seven Cedars Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 8.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Wagler Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 13.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Quarry Fire started on Wednesday 19 August, 15.3 miles south-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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 8:00am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 260 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. Saturday 31 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 31 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac