Awatchfire

Spokane County, Washington

Green Bluff Fire

Burning 1.9 miles west of Green Bluff and 2.8 miles north-east of Mead, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Washington. The Green Bluff Fire burns 11 miles from Spokane and 161 miles from Ellensburg, and 266 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 11 miles from Spokane and 161 miles from Ellensburg.

2

acres burned so far

48

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Green Bluff Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in Spokane 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

48 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 27 August at 1:37pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

47.812, -117.314lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.7 miles from the fire: 34°F, air at 91% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Fairview Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 4.7 miles south-west, and has reached 992 acres with 10 people assigned. Joseph Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 7.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Mckinnon Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 8.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Eagle Rock Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 10.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Woolard Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 11.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Lower Falls Road Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 12.0 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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 27 August

    First reported

  2. Thursday 27 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 2 acres

    2 ac