Awatchfire

Skamania County, Washington

Placid Fire

Burning 14.3 miles west of Trout Lake and 21.2 miles north of Carson, since Friday 23 October.

Map of Washington. The Placid Fire burns 72 miles from Yakima and 86 miles from Olympia, and 86 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 72 miles from Yakima and 86 miles from Olympia.

0

acres burned so far

21

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 1:03pm today

The Placid Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Skamania 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

21 hours

on record — first written down on Friday 23 October at 4:14pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.041, -121.819lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.5 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 58% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 93 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. Friday 23 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 24 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac