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Chelan County, Washington

Dirtyface Fire

Burning 21.0 miles north of Leavenworth and 27.9 miles north-east of Skykomish, since Thursday 23 July.

Map of Washington. The Dirtyface Fire burns 62 miles from Ellensburg and 74 miles from Seattle, and 113 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 62 miles from Ellensburg and 74 miles from Seattle.

0

acres burned so far

84

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Dirtyface Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 918 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 918 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Dirtyface 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

918hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50am on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

21.8miles

is how close the heat has come to Leavenworth 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 Skykomish is 26.9 miles, None in the last day.

2.7miles

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

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Little Giant Fire 9.4 miles north at 172,912 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 4.1 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 91% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

Four days of record on a day-85 fire

The record here begins at 1:46pm on 30 Aug and runs to 2:52am on 7 Sep — 181 hours, 61 readings of heat. The fire is on day 85, so the first 81 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.

Animated map of the Dirtyface Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 63 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 4 days of record

  1. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    First readings

    • 20 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:46pm to 4:37pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 33 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 88% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:47am to 3:40pm
    • Spread 2.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  3. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Sep

    Cooling off

    • 7 heat readings
    • Energy 73% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:06am to 4:14pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  4. Map for Mon 7 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon7 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 98% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:52am to 2:52am
    • Spread 2.6 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 23 July

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 1 September

    0 acres on record — 100% contained, 1 personnel assigned

    0 ac · 100% held · 1 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 1 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 918 hours, and the record still lists it as active.