Awatchfire

Kittitas County, Washington

Five Four Fire

Burning 8.1 miles north-west of Easton and 8.2 miles west of Roslyn, since Wednesday 9 September.

Map of Washington. The Five Four Fire burns 41 miles from Ellensburg and 54 miles from Seattle, and 76 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 41 miles from Ellensburg and 54 miles from Seattle.

0

acres burned so far

35

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Five Four Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 44 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 44 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Five Four 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

44hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:25pm on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

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

10.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Easton 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 Roslyn is 10.0 miles, None in the last day.

3.1miles

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

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Three Queens Fire 9.4 miles north at 9,575 acres and King Fire 13.2 miles north at 3,427 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 9.6 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 92% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-37 fire

The record here begins at 1:23pm on 13 Oct and runs to 1:23pm on 13 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 37, so the first 36 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.

Animated map of the Five Four Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
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

Tue 1:00pmTue 1:00pm

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

  1. Map for Tue 13 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue13 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:23pm to 1:23pm
    • Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Wednesday 9 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 9 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 44 hours, and the record still lists it as active.