Awatchfire

Pierce County, Washington

Cedar Lake Fire

Burning 10.1 miles east of Carbonado and 10.2 miles east of Wilkeson, since Sunday 18 October.

Map of Washington. The Cedar Lake Fire burns 45 miles from Seattle and 50 miles from Olympia, and 50 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 45 miles from Seattle and 50 miles from Olympia.

0

acres burned so far

27

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 2:11pm today

The Cedar Lake Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Pierce 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.

27 hours

on record — first written down on Sunday 18 October at 11:35am local time, starting at 0 acres.

47.076, -121.838lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.7 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 61% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. South Prairie Creek East Fire started on Monday 12 October, 5.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Wilkeson Creek Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 6.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Clearwest Peak Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 6.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Pigeon Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 7.7 miles south-east, and has reached 9 acres. Grand Park 2 Fire started on Friday 7 August, 10.3 miles south-east, and has reached 168 acres with 17 people assigned. White River Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 10.5 miles south-east, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 10:00am and 1:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 22 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. Sunday 18 October

    First reported

  2. Monday 19 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac