Awatchfire

Kittitas County, Washington

Goat Fire

Burning 13.7 miles north of Roslyn and 15.6 miles north of Ronald, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Washington. The Goat Fire burns 40 miles from Ellensburg and 62 miles from Seattle, and 91 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 40 miles from Ellensburg and 62 miles from Seattle.

610

acres burned so far — about 1.0 square miles

6

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The Goat Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 11 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 11 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Goat Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

11hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:00am on Friday, local time.

7readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

12.8miles

is how close the heat has come to Roslyn at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 12.9 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Ronald is 14.8 miles, 14.9 in the last day.

1.6miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Three Queens Fire 10.2 miles west at 8,249 acres and King Fire 9.5 miles west at 1,835 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 40 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

One place is burning

0.7 miles south-west of the recorded point

6 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 7.6 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 45% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

Seven days of record on a day-7 fire

The record here begins at 1:44pm on 22 Aug and runs to 3:00am on 28 Aug — 133 hours, 306 readings of heat.

Animated map of the Goat Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 47 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 7 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:44pm to 1:44pm
    • Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 18 heat readings
    • Energy 28.3 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:52am to 8:42pm
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and evening
  3. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 48 heat readings
    • Energy 2.2 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 9:19pm
    • Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  4. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 85 heat readings
    • Energy 1.2 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:15am to 8:21pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and evening
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Holding

    • 88 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 22% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 9:00pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  6. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 59 heat readings
    • Energy 51% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:22am to 1:51pm
    • Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  7. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 7 heat readings
    • Energy 98% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 3:00am
    • Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 117 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 1 acres when it was first written down to 610 now. Nothing has looked at it for 11 hours, and the record still lists it as active.