Map of Washington. The Desolation Fire burns 67 miles from Bellingham and 108 miles from Seattle, and 155 miles from the state capital, Olympia. — The fire sits 67 miles from Bellingham and 108 miles from Seattle.

acres burned so far

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Desolation Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 12 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 12 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Desolation 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

12hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:20am on Friday, local time.

2readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

32.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Marblemount at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 32.6 miles from it.

3.1miles

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

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Border 2 Fire 6.5 miles north at 7,864 acres and Luna Fire 10.6 miles south-west at 5,039 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 31 times so far. The thickest of it was thick 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.

Conditions measured 6.0 miles from the fire: 74°F, air at 36% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

Five days of record on a day-5 fire

The record here begins at 4:07pm on 24 Aug and runs to 4:19am on 28 Aug — 84 hours, 67 readings of heat.

Animated map of the Desolation Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date. — The whole record, 31 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 5 days of record

Mon24 Aug

First readings
- 1 heat readings
- Heat from 4:07pm to 4:07pm
- Spread 3.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the afternoon
Tue25 Aug

The fiercest day
- 21 heat readings
- Energy 12.9 times the day before
- Heat from 3:00am to 3:03pm
- Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
Wed26 Aug

Cooling off
- 23 heat readings — the most of any day
- Energy 69% down on the day before
- Heat from 2:43am to 4:21am
- Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu27 Aug

Holding
- 20 heat readings
- Energy 46% down on the day before
- Heat from 2:22am to 4:02am
- Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn
Fri28 Auglatest

Cooling off
- 2 heat readings
- Energy 88% down on the day before
- Heat from 2:58am to 4:19am
- Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 12 hours, and the record still lists it as active.

Where the heat is

Five days of record on a day-5 fire

Day by day 5 days of record

First readings

The fiercest day

Cooling off

Holding

Cooling off