Awatchfire

Pend Oreille County, Washington

Freedom Fire

Burning 5.7 miles south of Newport and 6.4 miles south of Oldtown, since Saturday 5 September.

Map of Washington. The Freedom Fire burns 34 miles from Spokane and 179 miles from Ellensburg, and 281 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 34 miles from Spokane and 179 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

39

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Freedom Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Pend Oreille 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

39 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 5 September at 3:51pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.096, -117.070lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 20.0 miles from the fire: 34°F, air at 91% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Roberts Road Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 12.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

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.

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. Saturday 5 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 5 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac