Burning 26.5 miles east of Darrington and 31.3 miles south-east of Marblemount, since Sunday 23 August.
The fire sits 71 miles from Seattle and 77 miles from Bellingham.
3
acres burned so far
4
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 4:12pm today
The Gamma Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 61 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 61 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
61hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Wednesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
26.5miles
is how close the heat has come to Darrington 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 Marblemount is 31.2 miles, None in the last day.
0.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Miners Fire started on Friday 14 August, 2.9 miles north, and has reached 18 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Little Giant Fire 14.2 miles south-east at 156,448 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 30 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 10:10am and 1:00pm local time.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 19.4 miles from the fire: 79°F, air at 27% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-6 fire
The record here begins at 1:42pm on 25 Aug and runs to 3:17am on 26 Aug — 14 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 6, so the first 4 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.
The whole record, 21 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 1:00pmWed 3:00am
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 2 days of record
Tue25 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 1:42pm to 1:42pm
Spread 0.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Wed26 Auglatest
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 100% down on the day before
Heat from 3:17am to 3:17am
Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 3 acres when it was first written down to 3 now. Nothing has looked at it for 61 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
