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Walla Walla County, Washington

Hatch Grade Fire

Burning 4.3 miles south-east of Wallula and 9.0 miles west of Touchet, since Tuesday 29 September.

Map of Washington. The Hatch Grade Fire burns 89 miles from Yakima and 105 miles from Ellensburg, and 204 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 89 miles from Yakima and 105 miles from Ellensburg.

9,584

acres burned so far — about 15 square miles

15

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Hatch Grade Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 9,584 acres in Walla Walla 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

60people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

15 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 29 September at 4:04pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.032, -118.859lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 22.5 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 58% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Hatch Grade HB 1498 Request Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 5,000 acres. Hatch Grande HB 1498 Request Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 2.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Twin Sisters Fire started on Saturday 13 June, 3.0 miles north-west, and has reached 8,262 acres with 6 people assigned. Dorran Road Fire started 23 minutes after this one, 3.8 miles south-east, and has reached 200 acres. Nine Canyon Fire started on Saturday 11 July, 10.9 miles north-west, and has reached 600 acres. 1924 Fire started 218 minutes before this one, 13.4 miles north-west, and has reached 187 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. Tuesday 29 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 29 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Wednesday 30 September

    Grew to 5,000 acres

    5,000 ac

  4. Thursday 1 October

    Grew to 9,023 acres — containment 70%, 60 personnel

    9,023 ac · 70% held · 60 crew

  5. Monday 12 October

    Grew to 9,584 acres — containment 100%

    9,584 ac · 100% held · 60 crew