Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Hill Loop Fire

Burning 5.4 miles north-east of Barstow and 8.0 miles north-east of Boyds, since Thursday 20 August.

Map of Washington. The Hill Loop Fire burns 84 miles from Spokane and 171 miles from Ellensburg, and 256 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 84 miles from Spokane and 171 miles from Ellensburg.

127

acres burned so far

55

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Hill Loop Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 127 acres in Stevens 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.

165people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

55 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 20 August at 2:23pm local time, starting at 8 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.819, -118.032lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 14.5 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 72% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Hawks Nest Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 15.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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 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. Thursday 20 August

    First reported at 8 acres

    8 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    127 acres on record — 36% contained, 172 personnel assigned

    127 ac · 36% held · 172 crew
  3. Monday 24 August

    Containment 72%

    127 ac · 72% held · 172 crew
  4. Tuesday 25 August

    Containment 90%

    127 ac · 90% held · 172 crew
  5. Wednesday 26 August

    Containment 95% — 165 personnel

    127 ac · 95% held · 165 crew
  6. Wednesday 2 September

    Containment 100%

    127 ac · 100% held · 165 crew