Awatchfire

Snohomish County, Washington

Independence Lake Fire

Burning 10.1 miles south-east of Darrington and 11.0 miles east of Verlot, since Saturday 5 September.

Map of Washington. The Independence Lake Fire burns 52 miles from Seattle and 61 miles from Bellingham, and 98 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 52 miles from Seattle and 61 miles from Bellingham.

0

acres burned so far

39

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Independence Lake Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Snohomish 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

39 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 5 September at 10:34am local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.123, -121.523lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.3 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 54% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Clear Creek Fire started on Sunday 20 September, 9.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Wisconsin Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 9.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Pilot Ridge Fire started on Monday 24 August, 13.1 miles south-east, and has reached 1 acres. Prairie Mountain Fire started on Friday 7 August, 13.2 miles north, and has reached 141 acres with 102 people assigned. Painted Mountain Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 13.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Curry Gap Fire started on Monday 24 August, 15.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Saturday 5 September

    First reported

  2. Sunday 6 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac