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Okanogan County, Washington

Chewiliken Strike Fire

Burning 9.3 miles south-east of Tonasket and 10.4 miles north-east of Riverside, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Washington. The Chewiliken Strike Fire burns 108 miles from Spokane and 124 miles from Ellensburg, and 197 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 108 miles from Spokane and 124 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

47

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Chewiliken Strike 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

47 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 6:22am local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.597, -119.326lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.0 miles from the fire: 37°F, air at 85% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Stowe Fire started 59 minutes before this one, 4.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Squirrel Spring Fire started on Monday 31 August, 11.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Swimptkin Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 13.0 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 29 August

    First reported

  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac