Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Deer Strike Fire

Burning 12.7 miles west of Springdale and 17.8 miles south-west of Valley, since Monday 7 September.

Map of Washington. The Deer Strike Fire burns 35 miles from Spokane and 137 miles from Ellensburg, and 237 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 35 miles from Spokane and 137 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

37

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Deer Strike Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Stevens 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.

37 days

on record — first written down on Monday 7 September at 12:02pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

47.996, -118.005lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 0.8 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 57% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Grouse Ridge Fire started on Friday 18 September, 2.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Owl Strike Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.5 miles west, and has reached 2 acres. Gennett Road Fire started 19 minutes after this one, 5.8 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rez Canyon Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 7.4 miles south-east, and has reached 1 acres. O-Ra-Pak-En Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 9.4 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Coyote Canyon Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 9.4 miles west, and has reached 4 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 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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. Monday 7 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 7 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac