Burning 2.0 miles south of Mead and 2.9 miles east of Country Homes, since Saturday 1 August.
The fire sits 7 miles from Spokane and 158 miles from Ellensburg.
992
acres burned so far — about 2 square miles
74
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Fairview Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 940 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 940 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
940hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 5:00am on Sunday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
2.7miles
is how close the heat has come to Mead 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 Country Homes is 1.2 miles, None in the last day.
1.9miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Green Bluff Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 4.7 miles north-east, and has reached 2 acres. Joseph Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 3.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mckinnon Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 4.5 miles south, 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.
Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Autumn Lane Fire 12.2 miles west at 5,764 acres and Old Trails Fire 9.4 miles south-west at 3,176 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 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 11.0 miles from the fire: 34°F, air at 91% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-76 fire
The record here begins at 5:02am on 6 Sep and runs to 5:02am on 6 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 76, so the first 75 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.
The whole record, 7 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 5:00amSun 5:00am
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
Sun6 Seplatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 5:02am to 5:02am
Spread 1.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the morning
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.
Saturday 1 August
First reported at 5 acres
5 ac
Sunday 23 August
992 acres on record — 100% contained, 10 personnel assigned
992 ac · 100% held · 10 crew
100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 10 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 5 acres when it was first written down to 992 now. Nothing has looked at it for 940 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
