Awatchfire

Jefferson County, Washington

Horseshoe Fire

Burning 2.5 miles south of Port Ludlow and 5.7 miles north-west of Lofall, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Washington. The Horseshoe Fire burns 25 miles from Seattle and 59 miles from Olympia, and 59 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 25 miles from Seattle and 59 miles from Olympia.

20

acres burned so far

25

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The Horseshoe Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 22 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 22 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Horseshoe 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

22hours

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

69% less

energy in the last 1.6 hours of the record than in the 1.6 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

2.4miles

is how close the heat has come to Port Ludlow at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 2.5 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Lofall is 5.2 miles, 5.2 in the last day.

0.6miles

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 20 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 8:00am and 10:00am local time.

One place is burning

At the point on the record

8 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 8.8 miles from the fire: 68°F, air at 62% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-2 fire

The record here begins at 1:04pm on 27 Aug and runs to 4:22pm on 27 Aug — 3 hours, 12 readings of heat. The fire is on day 2, so the first day is 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 Horseshoe Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 10 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

Thu 1:00pmThu 4:00pm

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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 12 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:04pm to 4:22pm
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 20 now. Nothing has looked at it for 22 hours, and the record still lists it as active.