Awatchfire

Thurston County, Washington

James Fire

Burning 1.1 miles west of Grand Mound and 2.3 miles south-east of Rochester, since Monday 28 September.

Map of Washington. The James Fire burns 18 miles from Olympia and 65 miles from Seattle, and 18 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 18 miles from Olympia and 65 miles from Seattle.

0

acres burned so far

16

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The James Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Thurston 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

16 days

on record — first written down on Monday 28 September at 1:48pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

46.795, -123.032lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.4 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 100% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Grand Mound Peak Fire started on Monday 21 September, 0.9 miles north, and has reached 4 acres. Northbound Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 1.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mt Molly Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 11.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Loc - Molly Two Fire started on Friday 11 September, 11.3 miles north, 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. Monday 28 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 28 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac