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Skagit County, Washington

Downey Creek Fire

Burning 21.2 miles south-east of Marblemount and 24.4 miles east of Darrington, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Downey Creek Fire burns 69 miles from Bellingham and 77 miles from Seattle, and 123 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 69 miles from Bellingham and 77 miles from Seattle.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Downey Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Skagit 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 12:37pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.340, -121.092lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.1 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 99% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Long Gone Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 4.4 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sulphur Creek 1 Fire started 78 minutes after this one, 5.6 miles south, and has reached 7 acres. Sulphur Creek 2 Fire started 80 minutes after this one, 5.7 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Formidable Fire started 453 minutes after this one, 5.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Kindy Creek Fire started on Wednesday 19 August, 7.4 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sonny Boy Fire started 65 minutes after this one, 7.6 miles north-west, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac