Awatchfire

Yakima County, Washington

Foundation Fire

Burning 10.5 miles west of Tampico and 19.9 miles south-west of Tieton, since Wednesday 2 September.

Map of Washington. The Foundation Fire burns 26 miles from Yakima and 41 miles from Ellensburg, and 92 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 26 miles from Yakima and 41 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

43

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Foundation Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Yakima 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.

43 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 2 September at 7:48am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.534, -121.096lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 21.3 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 71% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-east.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. South Fork Ahtanum Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Darland Fire started on Monday 31 August, 5.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Loc- Canyon Crest Fire started on Wednesday 1 July, 9.5 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. Wednesday 2 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 2 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Wednesday 2 September

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac