Awatchfire

Thurston County, Washington

Grand Mound Peak Fire

Burning 1.1 miles north-west of Grand Mound and 1.8 miles south-east of Rochester, since Monday 21 September.

Map of Washington. The Grand Mound Peak Fire burns 17 miles from Olympia and 65 miles from Seattle, and 17 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 17 miles from Olympia and 65 miles from Seattle.

4

acres burned so far

23

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Grand Mound Peak Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 572 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 572 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Grand Mound Peak 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 Where another fire is recorded

572hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:35pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

2.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Grand Mound 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 Rochester is 3.3 miles, None in the last day.

2.6miles

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

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. James Fire started on Monday 28 September, 0.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Northbound Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 2.4 miles south-east, 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.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 19.1 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 100% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-25 fire

The record here begins at 1:36pm on 21 Sep and runs to 1:36pm on 21 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 25, so the first 24 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.

Animated map of the Grand Mound Peak Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Mon 1:00pmMon 1:00pm

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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Mon 21 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon21 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:36pm to 1:36pm
    • Spread 2.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Monday 21 September

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

  2. Monday 21 September

    2 acres on record

    2 ac

  3. Monday 21 September

    Grew to 4 acres

    4 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 2 acres when it was first written down to 4 now. Nothing has looked at it for 572 hours, and the record still lists it as active.