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Okanogan County, Washington

Gold Lake Road Fire

Burning 5.9 miles north of Nespelem and 7.5 miles north-east of Nespelem Community, since Thursday 15 October.

Map of Washington. The Gold Lake Road Fire burns 81 miles from Spokane and 114 miles from Ellensburg, and 202 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 81 miles from Spokane and 114 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

5

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 12:56pm today

The Gold Lake Road 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.

5 hours

on record — first written down on Thursday 15 October at 7:35am local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.252, -118.954lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.0 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 50% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the west.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Gold Lake III Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 4.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Kaiser Canyon Fire started on Thursday 16 July, 9.3 miles south, and has reached 138,293 acres with 14 people assigned. 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. Thursday 15 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 15 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac