Awatchfire

Yakima County, Washington

Mile Post 47 Fire

Burning 13.6 miles south-west of Toppenish and 14.0 miles south of Harrah, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Washington. The Mile Post 47 Fire burns 27 miles from Yakima and 55 miles from Ellensburg, and 129 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 27 miles from Yakima and 55 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

52

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Mile Post 47 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Yakima 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.

52 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 7:14pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

46.212, -120.458lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.9 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 48% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Cr-Satus Creek Fire started on Sunday 3 May, 3.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Colwash Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 12.8 miles east, and has reached 39,103 acres with 4 people assigned. Newquist & Sampson Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 14.1 miles east, and has reached 77 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Sunday 23 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac