Awatchfire

Clark County, Washington

Hidden Meadow Fire

Burning 3.3 miles south-west of Amboy and 3.9 miles north of Lewisville, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Washington. The Hidden Meadow Fire burns 83 miles from Olympia and 106 miles from Yakima, and 83 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 83 miles from Olympia and 106 miles from Yakima.

12

acres burned so far

4

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The Hidden Meadow Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 82 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 82 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Hidden Meadow 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

82hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:40am on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

3.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Amboy 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 Lewisville is 3.9 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 21 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 15.7 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 58% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-5 fire

The record here begins at 1:04pm on 24 Aug and runs to 3:38am on 25 Aug — 15 hours, 7 readings of heat. The fire is on day 5, so the first 3 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 Hidden Meadow Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 21 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

Mon 1:00pmTue 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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    First readings

    • 6 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 1:04pm to 2:46pm
    • Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 99% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:38am to 3:38am
    • Spread 0.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 1 acres when it was first written down to 12 now. Nothing has looked at it for 82 hours, and the record still lists it as active.