Burning 6.0 miles south of Kettle Falls and 7.6 miles west of Colville, since Thursday 15 October.
The fire sits 66 miles from Spokane and 156 miles from Ellensburg.
3
acres burned so far
18
hours burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 11:28am today
The Mingo Meadow Fire is easing, but far from out. The last heat was seen 7 hours ago.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
7hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:20am on Friday, local time.
9% less
energy in the last 3.8 hours of the record
than in the 3.8 before them — the fire was
cooler when it was last seen.
5.7miles
is how close the heat has come to Kettle Falls at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 5.7 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Colville is 7.5 miles, 7.5 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.
0.5miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Rickey Canyon Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 2.0 miles south-west, and has reached 2 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Bradeen Hill Fire 14.5 miles south at 4,417 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 43 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
One place is burning
At the point on the record
7 readings of heat in the last day —
all of the heat seen in that time.
Conditions measured 4.9 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 62% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-2 fire
The record here begins at 8:47pm on 15 Oct and runs to 4:21am on 16 Oct — 8 hours, 7 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 15 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
Thu 8:00pmFri 4:00am
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 2 days of record
Thu15 Oct
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 8:47pm to 8:47pm
Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the evening
Fri16 Octlatest
Today so far
6 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 11% down on the day before
Heat from 1:43am to 4:21am
Spread 0.5 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.
Thursday 15 October
First reported at 3 acres
3 ac
Friday 16 October
3 acres on record
3 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 3 acres when it was first written down to 3 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.
