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Yakima County, Washington

Newquist & Sampson Fire

Burning 7.0 miles south-west of Outlook and 7.1 miles south of Granger, since Wednesday 7 October.

Map of Washington. The Newquist & Sampson Fire burns 30 miles from Yakima and 55 miles from Ellensburg, and 141 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 30 miles from Yakima and 55 miles from Ellensburg.

77

acres burned so far

7

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Newquist & Sampson Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 185 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 185 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Newquist & Sampson 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

185hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:05pm on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

7.0miles

is how close the heat has come to Outlook 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 Granger is 7.3 miles, None in the last day.

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.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 2040 Newland Rd Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 2.3 miles south-east, and has reached 16 acres. Colwash Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 5.0 miles south, and has reached 39,103 acres with 4 people assigned. 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.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 21.3 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 48% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-9 fire

The record here begins at 4:07pm on 7 Oct and runs to 4:07pm on 7 Oct — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 9, so the first 8 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 Newquist & Sampson Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Wed 4:00pmWed 4:00pm

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 Wed 7 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed7 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 4:07pm to 4:07pm
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Wednesday 7 October

    First reported at 10 acres

    10 ac

  2. Wednesday 7 October

    10 acres on record

    10 ac

  3. Wednesday 7 October

    Grew to 77 acres

    77 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 10 acres when it was first written down to 77 now. Nothing has looked at it for 185 hours, and the record still lists it as active.