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Spokane County, Washington

Lower Falls Road Fire

Burning 0.6 miles south-west of Spokane and 4.8 miles south of Town and Country, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Lower Falls Road Fire burns 1 miles from Spokane and 152 miles from Ellensburg, and 259 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 1 miles from Spokane and 152 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Lower Falls Road 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.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 12:37pm local time, starting at 2 acres.

47.660, -117.443lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.2 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 62% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Little Fish Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 2.1 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Old Trails Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 4.5 miles west, and has reached 3,176 acres with 14 people assigned. Mckinnon Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 5.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Joseph Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 5.8 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Hallett Fire started on Monday 31 August, 5.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Eagle Rock Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 7.0 miles east, 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.

  1. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    2 acres on record

    2 ac

  3. Tuesday 25 August

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac