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

8

days burning so far

95%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm 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.

95% held

95% 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.

8 days

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

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.819, -118.032lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.