Burning 11.5 miles south-west of Greenwater and 16.4 miles east of Carbonado, since Saturday 22 August.
The fire sits 52 miles from Seattle and 55 miles from Olympia.
8
acres burned so far
5
days burning so far
0%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 1:52pm today
The Pigeon Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 59 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 59 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
59hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Wednesday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
11.5miles
is how close the heat has come to Greenwater 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 Carbonado is 16.3 miles, None in the last day.
0.2miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Clearwest Peak Fire started 152 minutes before this one, 1.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Garda Falls Fire started on Monday 24 August, 4.9 miles south, and has reached 40 acres. Grand Park 2 Fire started on Friday 7 August, 2.8 miles south-east, and has reached 168 acres with 111 people assigned. Sluiskin Fire started 2 minutes before this one, 3.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. West Fork Fire started 7 minutes before this one, 3.2 miles south, and has reached 266 acres. White River Fire started 11 minutes before this one, 3.1 miles south, 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 36 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 10.6 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 49% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
Two days of record on a day-7 fire
The record here begins at 3:00am on 25 Aug and runs to 3:17am on 26 Aug — 24 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, 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.
The whole record, 31 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
Tue 3:00amWed 3:00am
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 2 days of record
Tue25 Aug
First readings
1 heat readings — the most of any day
Heat from 3:00am to 3:00am
Spread 0.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
Wed26 Auglatest
Cooling off
1 heat readings
Energy 100% down on the day before
Heat from 3:17am to 3:17am
Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
None of the perimeter is being reported as held. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 8 now. Nothing has looked at it for 59 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
