Map of Washington. The High Lava Fire burns 88 miles from Olympia and 90 miles from Yakima, and 88 miles from the state capital, Olympia. — The fire sits 88 miles from Olympia and 90 miles from Yakima.

2,776

acres burned so far — about 4 square miles

days burning so far

25%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The High Lava Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 58 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 58 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the High Lava 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

58hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:20am on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

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

13.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Yacolt 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 Cougar is 13.9 miles, None in the last day.

2.3miles

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 39 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 5.4 miles from the fire: 67°F, air at 58% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

Three days of record on a day-37 fire

The record here begins at 2:34am on 24 Aug and runs to 4:21am on 26 Aug — 50 hours, 108 readings of heat. The fire is on day 37, so the first 34 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.

Animated map of the High Lava Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date. — The whole record, 19 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 3 days of record

Mon24 Aug

First readings
- 20 heat readings
- Heat from 2:34am to 9:19pm
- Spread 1.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
Tue25 Aug

The fiercest day
- 64 heat readings — the most of any day
- Energy 1.6 times the day before
- Heat from 2:15am to 3:01pm
- Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn, morning and afternoon
Wed26 Auglatest

Cooling off
- 24 heat readings
- Energy 91% down on the day before
- Heat from 2:41am to 4:21am
- Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn

25% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 260 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 2,776 now. Nothing has looked at it for 58 hours, and the record still lists it as active.

Where the heat is

Three days of record on a day-37 fire

Day by day 3 days of record

First readings

The fiercest day

Cooling off