Awatchfire

Kittitas County, Washington

Koffman Fire

Burning 3.5 miles east of Kittitas and 9.7 miles east of Ellensburg, since Wednesday 19 August.

Map of Washington. The Koffman Fire burns 10 miles from Ellensburg and 29 miles from Yakima, and 120 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 10 miles from Ellensburg and 29 miles from Yakima.

20

acres burned so far

56

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Koffman Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 20 acres in Kittitas 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

56 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 19 August at 9:03pm local time, starting at 20 acres.

46.988, -120.345lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 24.2 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 72% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Canyon Ranch Fire started on Thursday 11 June, 8.8 miles south-west, and has reached 3 acres. Cove Road Fire started on Friday 19 June, 14.5 miles 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.

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. Wednesday 19 August

    First reported at 20 acres

    20 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    20 acres on record

    20 ac