Map of Washington. The Lyons Ferry Fire burns 81 miles from Spokane and 110 miles from Yakima, and 222 miles from the state capital, Olympia. — The fire sits 81 miles from Spokane and 110 miles from Yakima.

33,749

acres burned so far — about 53 square miles

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Lyons Ferry Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 42 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 42 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Lyons Ferry 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

42hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45pm on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

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

5.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Starbuck 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 Washtucna is 13.2 miles, None in the last day.

6.0miles

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

Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Nunamaker Road Fire 8.3 miles west at 20,870 acres and Devil'S Canyon Fire 14.8 miles west at 4,766 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground five times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 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

Two days of record on a day-92 fire

The record here begins at 3:59pm on 12 Oct and runs to 2:44pm on 13 Oct — 23 hours, 13 readings of heat. The fire is on day 92, so the first 90 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 Lyons Ferry Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date. — The whole record, 30 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 3:00pmTue 2:00pm

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 2 days of record

Mon12 Oct

First readings
- 1 heat readings
- Heat from 3:59pm to 3:59pm
- Spread 5.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the afternoon
Tue13 Octlatest

The fiercest day
- 12 heat readings — the most of any day
- Energy 17.4 times the day before
- Heat from 1:04pm to 2:44pm
- Spread 6.0 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.

Thursday 16 July

First reported at 300 acres
300 ac
Sunday 23 August

33,749 acres on record — 100% contained, 72 personnel assigned
33,749 ac · 100% held · 72 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 72 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 300 acres when it was first written down to 33,749 now. Nothing has looked at it for 42 hours, and the record still lists it as active.

Where the heat is

Two days of record on a day-92 fire

Hour by hour local time

Day by day 2 days of record

First readings

The fiercest day

How the record has moved