Awatchfire

King County, Washington

Money Creek Fire

Burning 5.3 miles west of Skykomish and 5.7 miles south of Baring, since Sunday 26 July.

Map of Washington. The Money Creek Fire burns 42 miles from Seattle and 64 miles from Ellensburg, and 80 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 42 miles from Seattle and 64 miles from Ellensburg.

2

acres burned so far

80

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Money Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in King 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.

0% held

None of the perimeter is being reported as held yet.

2people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

80 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 26 July at 8:00pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

47.688, -121.465lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.4 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 75% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Maloney Ridge Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 5.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Rainy Creek Fire started on Monday 31 August, 11.3 miles south-west, and has reached 0 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 26 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    2 acres on record — 0% contained, 2 personnel assigned

    2 ac · 0% held · 2 crew