The official record as of 9:09am today
The Joseph Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Spokane 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.
20 days
on record — first written down on
Thursday 24 September
at 4:18pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 5 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
47.708, -117.341lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 14.0 miles from the fire: 34°F, air at 91% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Mckinnon Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Fairview Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 3.0 miles north, and has reached 992 acres with 10 people assigned. Eagle Rock Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 4.4 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Lower Falls Road Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 5.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Green Bluff Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 7.2 miles north, and has reached 2 acres. Little Fish Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 7.3 miles south-west, 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.
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 233 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.
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Thursday 24 September
First reported
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Thursday 24 September
0 acres on record
0 ac