Burning 7.6 miles north of Marblemount and 14.0 miles north-east of Rockport, since Saturday 22 August.
The fire sits 48 miles from Bellingham and 83 miles from Seattle.
100
acres burned so far
5
days burning so far
0%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 1:52pm today
The Electric Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 35 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 35 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
35hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
6.9miles
is how close the heat has come to Marblemount 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 Rockport is 13.1 miles, None in the last day.
1.3miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Falls Creek Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 2.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Triumph Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.6 miles north-east, 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.
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.
Nothing close enough to the fire has reported the conditions on the ground.
How it got here
Three days of record on a day-7 fire
The record here begins at 3:00am on 25 Aug and runs to 3:17am on 27 Aug — 48 hours, 76 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 4 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.
The whole record, 19 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 3 days of record
Tue25 Aug
First readings
18 heat readings
Heat from 3:00am to 8:21pm
Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and evening
Wed26 Aug
Cooling off
45 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 80% down on the day before
Heat from 1:56am to 1:23pm
Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
Thu27 Auglatest
Cooling off
13 heat readings
Energy 75% down on the day before
Heat from 2:22am to 3:17am
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 28 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 2 acres when it was first written down to 100 now. Nothing has looked at it for 35 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
