Awatchfire

Kittitas County, Washington

King Fire

Burning 8.7 miles north-east of Snoqualmie Pass and 14.9 miles north of Roslyn, since Wednesday 19 August.

Map of Washington. The King Fire burns 46 miles from Ellensburg and 52 miles from Seattle, and 82 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 46 miles from Ellensburg and 52 miles from Seattle.

1,835

acres burned so far — about 3 square miles

8

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 1:52pm today

The King Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. The last heat was seen 11 hours ago.

No fresh look at this fire for 11 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the King 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 Where another fire is recorded

11hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:00am on Friday, local time.

47readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

6.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Snoqualmie Pass at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 7.4 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Roslyn is 12.7 miles, 13.1 in the last day.

2.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Three Queens Fire started on Wednesday 15 July, 3.9 miles south, and has reached 8,249 acres with 771 people assigned. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 49 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

One place is burning

1.0 miles south of the recorded point

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

Conditions measured 3.5 miles from the fire: 69°F, air at 45% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

Seven days of record on a day-10 fire

The record here begins at 2:15am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:00am on 28 Aug — 145 hours, 853 readings of heat. The fire is on day 10, so the first 3 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen.

Animated map of the King Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 51 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Day by day 7 days of record

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat22 Aug

    First readings

    • 125 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:15am to 9:40pm
    • Spread 1.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  2. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 25 heat readings
    • Energy 88% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:34am to 8:42pm
    • Spread 1.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and evening
  3. Map for Mon 24 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon24 Aug

    Flaring up

    • 84 heat readings
    • Energy 16.6 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:13am to 9:19pm
    • Spread 1.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon and night
  4. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 104 heat readings
    • Energy 70% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:15am to 9:59pm
    • Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, morning, afternoon, evening and night
  5. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    The fiercest day

    • 187 heat readings
    • Energy 6.8 times the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 9:00pm
    • Spread 2.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
  6. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 282 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 55% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:22am to 9:38pm
    • Spread 2.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
  7. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 46 heat readings
    • Energy 96% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:41am to 3:00am
    • Spread 1.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

None of the perimeter is being reported as held. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 5 acres when it was first written down to 1,835 now. Nothing has looked at it for 11 hours, and the record still lists it as active.