Awatchfire

Walla Walla County, Washington

Casey Fire

Burning 10.2 miles east of Kahlotus and 11.7 miles south of Washtucna, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Washington. The Casey Fire burns 86 miles from Spokane and 104 miles from Yakima, and 217 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 86 miles from Spokane and 104 miles from Yakima.

1

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Casey Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 132 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 132 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Casey 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 Where another fire is recorded

132hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:15am on Sunday, local time.

16% less

energy in the last 1.1 hours of the record than in the 1.1 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

9.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Kahlotus 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 Washtucna is 11.8 miles, None in the last day.

0.5miles

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

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Nunamaker Road Fire started on Saturday 8 August, 2.5 miles west, and has reached 20,870 acres with 1 people assigned. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Lyons Ferry Fire 6.2 miles north-east at 33,749 acres and Devil'S Canyon Fire 9.2 miles west at 4,766 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 16 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time.

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-7 fire

The record here begins at 1:58am on 23 Aug and runs to 4:15am on 23 Aug — 2 hours, 7 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 6 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 Casey Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 10 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

Sun 1:00amSun 4:00am

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

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 1 acres when it was first written down to 1 now. Nothing has looked at it for 132 hours, and the record still lists it as active.