Awatchfire

Skagit County, Washington

Falls Creek Fire

Burning 5.3 miles north of Marblemount and 11.4 miles north-east of Rockport, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Falls Creek Fire burns 47 miles from Bellingham and 80 miles from Seattle, and 128 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 47 miles from Bellingham and 80 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 Falls 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 12:45pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.617, -121.460lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 22.6 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 100% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Electric Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.7 miles north-east, and has reached 495 acres with 4 people assigned. Olson Creek Fire started on Monday 7 September, 3.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Triumph Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 6.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. O'Brian Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 9.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Scramble Creek Fire started 27 minutes before this one, 11.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Wilcox Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 13.6 miles 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.

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. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac