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.

815

acres burned so far — about 1.3 square miles

54

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 2:20am today

The Goat Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1072 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1072 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

1072hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 10:30am on Tuesday, local time.

42% less

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

12.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Roslyn 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 Ronald is 14.4 miles, None 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 9,575 acres and King Fire 9.5 miles west at 3,427 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 22.5 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 72% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

Ten days of record on a day-56 fire

The record here begins at 1:44pm on 22 Aug and runs to 10:30am on 1 Sep — 237 hours, 369 readings of heat. The fire is on day 56, so the first 46 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.

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, 82 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 10 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 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 11 heat readings
    • Energy 91% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 12:47pm
    • Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  8. Map for Sun 30 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun30 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 12 heat readings
    • Energy 1.7 times the day before
    • Heat from 12:51pm to 1:46pm
    • Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  9. Map for Mon 31 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon31 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 33 heat readings
    • Energy 4.2 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:02am to 9:00pm
    • Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
  10. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 14 heat readings
    • Energy 84% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:28am to 10:30am
    • Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and morning

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 22 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    17 acres on record

    17 ac

  3. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 50 acres — containment 0%

    50 ac · 0% held

  4. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 71 acres — 63 personnel

    71 ac · 0% held · 63 crew

  5. Tuesday 25 August

    Revised to 17 acres

    17 ac · 0% held · 63 crew

  6. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 178 acres — 122 personnel

    178 ac · 0% held · 122 crew

  7. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 610 acres — 117 personnel

    610 ac · 0% held · 117 crew

  8. Friday 28 August

    Grew to 668 acres — 119 personnel

    668 ac · 0% held · 119 crew

  9. Saturday 29 August

    Grew to 687 acres — 132 personnel

    687 ac · 0% held · 132 crew

  10. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 707 acres — 129 personnel

    707 ac · 0% held · 129 crew

  11. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 736 acres — 91 personnel

    736 ac · 0% held · 91 crew

  12. Tuesday 1 September

    Grew to 790 acres

    790 ac · 0% held · 91 crew

  13. Wednesday 2 September

    Grew to 794 acres — 90 personnel

    794 ac · 0% held · 90 crew

  14. Saturday 5 September

    Containment 3%

    794 ac · 3% held · 90 crew

  15. Sunday 6 September

    Grew to 809 acres

    809 ac · 3% held · 90 crew

  16. Tuesday 8 September

    Grew to 810 acres — 79 personnel

    810 ac · 3% held · 79 crew

  17. Wednesday 9 September

    Grew to 813 acres

    813 ac · 3% held · 79 crew

  18. Friday 11 September

    Grew to 816 acres — containment 22%, 70 personnel

    816 ac · 22% held · 70 crew

  19. Tuesday 15 September

    Revised to 815 acres — 44 personnel

    815 ac · 22% held · 44 crew

  20. Wednesday 16 September

    Containment 41% — 31 personnel

    815 ac · 41% held · 31 crew

  21. Thursday 17 September

    Containment 64%

    815 ac · 64% held · 31 crew

  22. Friday 18 September

    Containment 70%

    815 ac · 70% held · 31 crew

  23. Sunday 20 September

    Containment 80% — 26 personnel

    815 ac · 80% held · 26 crew

  24. Wednesday 23 September

    Containment 85% — 23 personnel

    815 ac · 85% held · 23 crew

  25. Sunday 27 September

    Containment 100%

    815 ac · 100% held · 23 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 23 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 1 acres when it was first written down to 815 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1072 hours, and the record still lists it as active.