Awatchfire

Skagit County, Washington

Formidable Fire

Burning 17.4 miles south-east of Marblemount and 23.5 miles east of Rockport, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Formidable Fire burns 66 miles from Bellingham and 80 miles from Seattle, and 127 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 66 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 Formidable 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 8:10pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.425, -121.103lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.4 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. Sonny Boy Fire started 388 minutes before this one, 2.7 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Mineral Fire started 22 minutes before this one, 2.9 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Long Gone Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 3.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kindy Creek Fire started on Wednesday 19 August, 4.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Downey Creek Fire started 453 minutes before this one, 5.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Thunder Creek Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 9.3 miles north, and has reached 715 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. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 1 acres

    1 ac

  4. Tuesday 1 September

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac