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Whitman County, Washington

Palouse River Fire

Burning 3.6 miles south of Colfax and 6.1 miles north-west of Albion, since Saturday 8 August.

Map of Washington. The Palouse River Fire burns 55 miles from Spokane and 153 miles from Ellensburg, and 264 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 55 miles from Spokane and 153 miles from Ellensburg.

637

acres burned so far — about 1.0 square miles

20

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Palouse River Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 637 acres in Whitman 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

57people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

20 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 8 August at 5:41pm local time, starting at 200 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.871, -117.308lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.