Burning 25.3 miles east of Darrington and 28.6 miles south-east of Marblemount, since Friday 14 August.
The fire sits 72 miles from Seattle and 75 miles from Bellingham.
18
acres burned so far
14
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 4:12pm today
The Miners Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 37 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 37 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
37hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Thursday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
24.8miles
is how close the heat has come to Darrington 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 Marblemount is 28.1 miles, None in the last day.
2.9miles
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. Gamma Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 2.9 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Sulphur Creek 1 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.3 miles north-west, and has reached 3 acres. Sulphur Creek 2 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.9 miles north-west, 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 8:00am and 10:00am local time.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 18.3 miles from the fire: 79°F, air at 27% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north.
How it got here
Four days of record on a day-15 fire
The record here begins at 3:13am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:17am on 27 Aug — 120 hours, 16 readings of heat. The fire is on day 15, so the first 11 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, 43 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 4 days of record
Sat22 Aug
First readings
4 heat readings
Heat from 3:13am to 3:13am
Spread 2.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Tue25 Aug
The fiercest day
7 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 13.0 times the day before
Heat from 3:00am to 2:27pm
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
Wed26 Aug
Cooling off
4 heat readings
Energy 96% down on the day before
Heat from 3:17am to 3:36am
Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Thu27 Auglatest
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 67% down on the day before
Heat from 3:17am to 3:17am
Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
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 18 now. Nothing has looked at it for 37 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
