Awatchfire

Whitman County, Washington

Parvin Fire

Burning 1.3 miles north of Albion and 6.5 miles north-west of Pullman, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Washington. The Parvin Fire burns 60 miles from Spokane and 156 miles from Ellensburg, and 267 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 60 miles from Spokane and 156 miles from Ellensburg.

40

acres burned so far

5

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Parvin Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 121 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 121 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Parvin 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

121hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:30pm on Sunday, local time.

99% less

energy in the last 0.8 hours of the record than in the 0.8 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

1.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Albion 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 Pullman is 6.1 miles, None in the last day.

0.8miles

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 15 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 8 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.

Nothing close enough to the fire has reported the conditions on the ground.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-6 fire

The record here begins at 1:59pm on 23 Aug and runs to 3:29pm on 23 Aug — 2 hours, 24 readings of heat. The fire is on day 6, so the first 5 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 Parvin Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 9 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 1:00pmSun 3:00pm

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

    Sun23 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 24 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:59pm to 3:29pm
    • Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 40 acres when it was first written down to 40 now. Nothing has looked at it for 121 hours, and the record still lists it as active.