Awatchfire

Spokane County, Washington

Market Fire

Burning 2.6 miles east of Country Homes and 2.7 miles east of Town and Country, since Saturday 1 August.

Map of Washington. The Market Fire burns 6 miles from Spokane and 157 miles from Ellensburg, and 263 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 6 miles from Spokane and 157 miles from Ellensburg.

30

acres burned so far

87

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 4:08pm today

The Market Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 30 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

87 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 1 August at 2:59pm local time, starting at 3 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

47.737, -117.365lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.9 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 73% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Kaiser Fire started on Saturday 17 October, 1.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Fairview Fire started 47 minutes before this one, 1.0 miles north, and has reached 992 acres with 10 people assigned. Joseph Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 2.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mckinnon Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 3.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Green Bluff Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 5.7 miles north-east, and has reached 2 acres. Lower Falls Road Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 6.4 miles south-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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 168 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. Saturday 1 August

    First reported at 3 acres

    3 ac
  2. Tuesday 27 October

    30 acres on record

    30 ac