Awatchfire

Ferry County, Washington

Cemetery Fire

Burning 3.8 miles south-east of Inchelium and 8.5 miles north-east of Twin Lakes, since Saturday 24 October.

Map of Washington. The Cemetery Fire burns 57 miles from Spokane and 143 miles from Ellensburg, and 236 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 57 miles from Spokane and 143 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 8:29pm today

The Cemetery Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Ferry 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.

1 hour

on record — first written down on Saturday 24 October at 7:10pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.321, -118.196lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.5 miles from the fire: 46°F, air at 57% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Bradeen Hill Fire started on Saturday 25 July, 3.8 miles east, and has reached 4,417 acres with 32 people assigned. Rocky Point Fire started on Friday 2 October, 9.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Kelset Fire started on Monday 19 October, 9.4 miles north-east, and has reached 3 acres. Harvey Fire started on Wednesday 21 October, 11.3 miles south, and has reached 1 acres. Rickey Canyon Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 13.2 miles north, and has reached 2 acres. Wilmont Road Fire started on Sunday 16 August, 13.5 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 7:50am and 7:50am local time. The last of those windows closed 100 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 24 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 24 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac