Burning 4.5 miles south-east of Spangle and 5.2 miles north-west of Waverly, since Saturday 29 August.
The fire sits 21 miles from Spokane and 154 miles from Ellensburg.
18
acres burned so far
46
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Pine Creek Road Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1122 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 1122 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
1122hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:55pm on Saturday, local time.
31% less
energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record
than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was
cooler when it was last seen.
4.8miles
is how close the heat has come to Spangle 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 Waverly is 4.9 miles, None in the last day.
0.4miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Pine Creek Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 2 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Wells Road Fire 12.7 miles south-west at 1,865 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
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 41 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.
Conditions measured 9.8 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 55% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the east.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-48 fire
The record here begins at 1:49pm on 29 Aug and runs to 2:53pm on 29 Aug — 1 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 48, so the first 47 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, 8 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
Sat 1:00pmSat 2:00pm
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
Sat29 Auglatest
First readings
3 heat readings
Heat from 1:49pm to 2:53pm
Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Saturday 29 August
First reported at 2 acres
2 ac
Saturday 29 August
2 acres on record
2 ac
Saturday 29 August
Grew to 15 acres
15 ac
Saturday 29 August
Grew to 18 acres
18 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 2 acres when it was first written down to 18 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1122 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
