Burning 15.9 miles south of Greenwater and 18.1 miles north-east of Ashford, since Monday 24 August.
The fire sits 55 miles from Ellensburg and 56 miles from Olympia.
40
acres burned so far
4
days burning so far
0%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 1:52pm today
The Garda Falls Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 34 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 34 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
34hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:05am on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
15.7miles
is how close the heat has come to Greenwater 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 Ashford is 17.9 miles, None in the last day.
0.3miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Grand Park 2 Fire started on Friday 7 August, 4.3 miles north-east, and has reached 168 acres with 111 people assigned. Pigeon Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.9 miles north, and has reached 8 acres. Sluiskin Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. West Fork Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.7 miles north, and has reached 266 acres. White River Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 1.8 miles north, 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.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 31 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 14.6 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 49% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-5 fire
The record here begins at 2:43am on 26 Aug and runs to 4:04am on 27 Aug — 25 hours, 11 readings of heat. The fire is on day 5, so the first 3 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, 33 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
Wed 2:00amThu 4:00am
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
Wed26 Aug
First readings
6 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 2:43am to 4:21am
Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu27 Auglatest
Today so far
5 heat readings
Energy 36% down on the day before
Heat from 3:17am to 4:04am
Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
None of the perimeter is being reported as held. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 40 now. Nothing has looked at it for 34 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
