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Skagit County, Washington

Prairie Mountain Fire

Burning 8.2 miles north-east of Darrington and 12.4 miles east of Swede Heaven, since Friday 7 August.

Map of Washington. The Prairie Mountain Fire burns 56 miles from Bellingham and 63 miles from Seattle, and 111 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 56 miles from Bellingham and 63 miles from Seattle.

141

acres burned so far

21

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:37pm today

The Prairie Mountain Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 141 acres in Skagit 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.

102people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

21 days

on record — first written down on Friday 7 August at 7:42am local time, starting at 30 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.307, -121.444lat, 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.