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Snohomish County, Washington

Miners Fire

Burning 25.3 miles east of Darrington and 28.6 miles south-east of Marblemount, since Friday 14 August.

Map of Washington. The Miners Fire burns 72 miles from Seattle and 75 miles from Bellingham, and 118 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 72 miles from Seattle and 75 miles from Bellingham.

151

acres burned so far

61

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Miners Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1182 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1182 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Miners Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

1182hours

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 29 acres. Sulphur Creek 1 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 4.3 miles north-west, and has reached 7 acres. Sulphur Creek 2 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.9 miles north-west, and has reached 3 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Sisi Fire 14.2 miles north-east at 4,615 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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: 59°F, air at 58% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

Four days of record on a day-63 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 63, so the first 59 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.

Animated map of the Miners Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
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

  1. Map for Sat 22 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  2. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  3. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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
  4. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    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

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. Friday 14 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    18 acres on record

    18 ac

  3. Monday 31 August

    Grew to 150 acres

    150 ac

  4. Thursday 3 September

    Grew to 200 acres — containment 0%

    200 ac · 0% held

  5. Wednesday 9 September

    Revised to 144 acres

    144 ac · 0% held

  6. Thursday 17 September

    Grew to 149 acres — 2 personnel

    149 ac · 0% held · 2 crew

  7. Thursday 24 September

    Grew to 151 acres

    151 ac · 0% held · 2 crew

None of the perimeter is being reported as held. 2 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 151 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1182 hours, and the record still lists it as active.