Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Owl Strike Fire

Burning 18.2 miles west of Springdale and 22.3 miles north of Davenport, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Washington. The Owl Strike Fire burns 38 miles from Spokane and 132 miles from Ellensburg, and 232 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 38 miles from Spokane and 132 miles from Ellensburg.

2

acres burned so far

52

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Owl Strike Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 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.

52 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 1:24pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

47.978, -118.121lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.2 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. Grouse Ridge Fire started on Friday 18 September, 4.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. O-Ra-Pak-En Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 4.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Coyote Canyon Fire started 7 minutes before this one, 5.3 miles north-west, and has reached 4 acres. Pierre Campground Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 5.5 miles west, and has reached 2 acres. Deer Strike Fire started on Monday 7 September, 5.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Hudspeth Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 7.8 miles north, and has reached 6,726 acres with 31 people assigned. 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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 23 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    1 acres on record

    1 ac

  3. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 2 acres

    2 ac