Awatchfire

Garfield County, Washington

Monument Fire

Burning 19.4 miles west of Anatone and 25.2 miles south of Pataha, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Washington. The Monument Fire burns 108 miles from Spokane and 148 miles from Yakima, and 263 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 108 miles from Spokane and 148 miles from Yakima.

0

acres burned so far

53

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Monument Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1278 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1278 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Monument 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

1278hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:55am on Sunday, local time.

30% more

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

19.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Anatone 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 Pataha is 25.0 miles, None in the last day.

0.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 21.8 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 62% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-54 fire

The record here begins at 1:58am on 23 Aug and runs to 2:54am on 23 Aug — 1 hours, 7 readings of heat. The fire is on day 54, so the first 53 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. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Monument Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Sun 1:00amSun 2:00am

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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Sun 23 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sun23 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 7 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:58am to 2:54am
    • Spread 0.2 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. Sunday 23 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

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 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1278 hours, and the record still lists it as active.