Burning 2.5 miles west of Millwood and 4.9 miles east of Spokane, since Saturday 12 September.
The fire sits 5 miles from Spokane and 158 miles from Ellensburg.
0
acres burned so far
32
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Mckinnon Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 270 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 270 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
270hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:05am on Sunday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
3.0miles
is how close the heat has come to Millwood 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 Spokane is 4.2 miles, None in the last day.
1.0miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Eagle Rock Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 3.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Fairview Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 4.5 miles north, and has reached 992 acres with 10 people assigned. Joseph Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 1.5 miles north, 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.
Two larger fires are burning outside this frame: Autumn Lane Fire 15.0 miles north-west at 5,764 acres and Old Trails Fire 9.3 miles west at 3,176 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 15.5 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 62% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-34 fire
The record here begins at 3:06am on 4 Oct and runs to 3:06am on 4 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 34, so the first 33 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.
The whole record, 7 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
Sun 3:00amSun 3:00am
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 1 day of record
Sun4 Octlatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 3:06am to 3:06am
Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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.
Saturday 12 September
First reported
Saturday 12 September
0 acres on record
0 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 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 270 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
