Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

O-Ra-Pak-En Fire

Burning 18.1 miles south-east of Twin Lakes and 21.3 miles west of Springdale, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of Washington. The O-Ra-Pak-En Fire burns 43 miles from Spokane and 130 miles from Ellensburg, and 229 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 43 miles from Spokane and 130 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The O-Ra-Pak-En Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Stevens 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

50 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 26 August at 5:35am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.022, -118.205lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.8 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 50% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Coyote Canyon Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 0.7 miles north, and has reached 4 acres. Pierre Campground Fire started 888 minutes after this one, 4.7 miles south, and has reached 2 acres. Owl Strike Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.9 miles south-east, and has reached 2 acres. Hudspeth Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 5.1 miles north-east, and has reached 6,726 acres with 31 people assigned. Modrite Fire started on Friday 17 July, 6.0 miles north-west, and has reached 57,594 acres with 6 people assigned. Grouse Ridge Fire started on Friday 18 September, 8.7 miles south-east, 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time.

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. Wednesday 26 August

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac