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Thurston County, Washington

Loc - Inc 87 Fire

Burning 1.2 miles east of North Yelm and 2.7 miles north-west of McKenna, since Monday 13 July.

Map of Washington. The Loc - Inc 87 Fire burns 15 miles from Olympia and 47 miles from Seattle, and 15 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 15 miles from Olympia and 47 miles from Seattle.

0

acres burned so far

93

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Loc - Inc 87 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 233 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 233 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Loc - Inc 87 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

233hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:30pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

1.6miles

is how close the heat has come to North Yelm at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to McKenna is 4.1 miles, None in the last day.

1.7miles

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. Four Corners Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 4.0 miles south, and has reached 2 acres. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was moderate 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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Nothing close enough to the fire has reported the conditions on the ground.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-95 fire

The record here begins at 4:29pm on 5 Oct and runs to 4:29pm on 5 Oct — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 95, so the first 94 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Loc - Inc 87 Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Mon 4:00pmMon 4:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Mon 5 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon5 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 4:29pm to 4:29pm
    • Spread 1.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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 13 July

    First reported

  2. Saturday 12 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 233 hours, and the record still lists it as active.