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Yakima County, Washington

Hessler Flats Fire

Burning 7.1 miles north-east of Naches and 10.1 miles north-east of Tieton, since Sunday 13 September.

Map of Washington. The Hessler Flats Fire burns 13 miles from Ellensburg and 16 miles from Yakima, and 108 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 13 miles from Ellensburg and 16 miles from Yakima.

0

acres burned so far

31

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Hessler Flats Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Yakima 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

31 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 13 September at 5:42pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.819, -120.626lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 24.0 miles from the fire: 33°F, air at 98% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Canyon Ranch Fire started on Thursday 11 June, 8.9 miles north-east, and has reached 3 acres. Pleasant Fire started on Friday 5 June, 9.4 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Cove Road Fire started on Friday 19 June, 12.0 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Burbank Bridge Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 12.2 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 11:00am and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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. Sunday 13 September

    First reported

  2. Sunday 13 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac