Awatchfire

Skagit County, Washington

Mineral Fire

Burning 14.5 miles south-east of Marblemount and 20.8 miles east of Rockport, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Mineral Fire burns 64 miles from Bellingham and 80 miles from Seattle, and 126 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 64 miles from Bellingham and 80 miles from Seattle.

1

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Mineral Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Skagit 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.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 7:48pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

48.448, -121.156lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 21.2 miles from the fire: 59°F, air at 58% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Sonny Boy Fire started 366 minutes before this one, 0.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Kindy Creek Fire started on Wednesday 19 August, 2.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Formidable Fire started 22 minutes after this one, 2.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Long Gone Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 4.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Downey Creek Fire started 432 minutes before this one, 8.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Thunder Creek Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 9.1 miles north-east, and has reached 715 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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac

  4. Thursday 27 August

    Grew to 1 acres

    1 ac