Burning 3.6 miles south of Waitsburg and 5.8 miles north of Dixie, since Thursday 6 August.
The fire sits 105 miles from Spokane and 118 miles from Yakima.
15
acres burned so far
69
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The McCowan Road Mutual Aid Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 403 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 403 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
403hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:50pm on Monday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
5.5miles
is how close the heat has come to Waitsburg 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 Dixie is 2.7 miles, None in the last day.
3.1miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Bundy Hollow 1498 Request Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 3.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Whiskey Creek Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 3.5 miles east, and has reached 120 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 seven 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.
Conditions measured 18.7 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 62% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-71 fire
The record here begins at 12:57pm on 22 Sep and runs to 1:49pm on 28 Sep — 145 hours, 5 readings of heat. The fire is on day 71, so the first 69 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.
The whole record, 51 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 2 days of record
Tue22 Sep
First readings
4 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 12:57pm to 12:57pm
Spread 3.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
Mon28 Seplatest
Today so far
1 heat readings
Energy 50% down on the day before
Heat from 1:49pm to 1:49pm
Spread 3.1 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 6 August
First reported
Tuesday 1 September
15 acres on record
15 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 15 now. Nothing has looked at it for 403 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
