Awatchfire

Pend Oreille County, Washington

Rankin Fire

Burning 10.2 miles north of Cusick and 18.9 miles south of Ione, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Washington. The Rankin Fire burns 56 miles from Spokane and 180 miles from Ellensburg, and 275 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 56 miles from Spokane and 180 miles from Ellensburg.

2

acres burned so far

52

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Rankin Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in Pend Oreille 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

52 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 9:43am local time, starting at 1 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.470, -117.358lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.2 miles from the fire: 20°F, a 3 mph wind.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Smalle Creek Fire started 171 minutes before this one, 6.1 miles south-west, and has reached 2 acres. Cordes Fire started on Monday 31 August, 8.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Upper Ruby Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 8.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rocky Butte Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 9.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Ojibway Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 11.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Crystal Slope Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 14.1 miles west, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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. Sunday 23 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    1 acres on record

    1 ac

  3. Sunday 23 August

    Grew to 2 acres

    2 ac