Awatchfire

Chelan County, Washington

Mcginty Fire

Burning 2.6 miles north of Chelan and 5.9 miles north of Chelan Falls, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Washington. The Mcginty Fire burns 66 miles from Ellensburg and 92 miles from Yakima, and 146 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 66 miles from Ellensburg and 92 miles from Yakima.

0

acres burned so far

3

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:48pm today

The Mcginty Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Chelan 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

3 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 1:01pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

47.881, -120.027lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 14.1 miles from the fire: 62°F, air at 45% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the west.

Eight other fires are burning inside the same view. Antilon Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 8.4 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Brown Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 5.7 miles north-east, and has reached 1 acres. Cooper Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 9.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Robison Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 14.0 miles north-west, and has reached 4 acres. Stormy Mountain Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 9.0 miles west, and has reached 1 acres. True Blue Fire started 106 minutes before this one, 7.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Washington Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.4 miles north-east, and has reached 30 acres. Water Tower Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 4.7 miles north, and has reached 1 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 32 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 8 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 29 August

    First reported

  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac