Awatchfire

Okanogan County, Washington

Gold Lake III Fire

Burning 10.4 miles north of Nespelem and 11.5 miles north of Nespelem Community, since Sunday 30 August.

Map of Washington. The Gold Lake III Fire burns 84 miles from Spokane and 117 miles from Ellensburg, and 203 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 84 miles from Spokane and 117 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Gold Lake III Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Okanogan 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

45 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 30 August at 3:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.318, -118.960lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.6 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 65% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Gold Lake Road Fire started on Thursday 15 October, 4.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Swimptkin Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 13.3 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kaiser Canyon Fire started on Thursday 16 July, 13.9 miles south, and has reached 138,293 acres with 14 people assigned. Squirrel Spring Fire started 1277 minutes after this one, 15.0 miles north-west, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Sunday 30 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 30 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac