Awatchfire

Pierce County, Washington

Grand Park 2 Fire

Burning 11.8 miles south of Greenwater and 19.2 miles east of Carbonado, since Friday 7 August.

Map of Washington. The Grand Park 2 Fire burns 53 miles from Ellensburg and 55 miles from Seattle, and 58 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 53 miles from Ellensburg and 55 miles from Seattle.

168

acres burned so far

21

days burning so far

82%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm 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 155 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 155 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Grand Park 2 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

155hours

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 40 acres. Pigeon Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 2.8 miles north-west, and has reached 8 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 266 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 34 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

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: 70°F, air at 49% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-22 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 22, so the first 21 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 Park 2 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

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

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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

82% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 111 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 155 hours, and the record still lists it as active.