Burning 11.8 miles south of Greenwater and 19.2 miles east of Carbonado, since Friday 7 August.
The fire sits 53 miles from Ellensburg and 55 miles from Seattle.
168
acres burned so far
68
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Grand Park 2 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1302 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 1302 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
1302hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:10am on Saturday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
12.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Greenwater 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 Carbonado is 20.1 miles, None in the last day.
1.0miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Clearwest Peak Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Garda Falls Fire started on Monday 24 August, 4.3 miles south-west, and has reached 73 acres. Pigeon Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.8 miles north-west, and has reached 9 acres. Sluiskin Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 3.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. West Fork Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.8 miles south-west, and has reached 310 acres. White River Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.8 miles south-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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 10.3 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 46% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-70 fire
The record here begins at 3:11am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:11am on 22 Aug — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 70, so the first 69 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.
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
Sat 3:00amSat 3:00am
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
Sat22 Auglatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 3:11am to 3:11am
Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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.
Friday 7 August
First reported at 50 acres
50 ac
Sunday 23 August
168 acres on record — 67% contained, 120 personnel assigned
168 ac · 67% held · 120 crew
Monday 24 August
Containment 82% — 111 personnel
168 ac · 82% held · 111 crew
Sunday 30 August
Containment 88% — 24 personnel
168 ac · 88% held · 24 crew
Monday 31 August
Containment 100% — 17 personnel
168 ac · 100% held · 17 crew
100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 17 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 50 acres when it was first written down to 168 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1302 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
