Awatchfire

Cowlitz County, Washington

Dike Fire

Burning 0.4 miles north of Woodland and 3.3 miles north-east of Columbia City, since Thursday 11 June.

Map of Washington. The Dike Fire burns 77 miles from Olympia and 115 miles from Yakima, and 77 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 77 miles from Olympia and 115 miles from Yakima.

0

acres burned so far

125

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Dike Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 269 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 269 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Dike 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

269hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:30am on Sunday, local time.

19% less

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

3.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Woodland at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Columbia City is 6.1 miles, None in the last day.

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.

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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 7.4 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 88% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-127 fire

The record here begins at 3:51am on 4 Oct and runs to 4:28am on 4 Oct — 1 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 127, so the first 126 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Dike Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Sun 3:00amSun 4:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sun 4 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun4 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:51am to 4:28am
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Thursday 11 June

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 29 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

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 269 hours, and the record still lists it as active.