Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Reservation Road Fire

Burning 6.2 miles south of Springdale and 10.1 miles south-west of Loon Lake, since Thursday 15 October.

Map of Washington. The Reservation Road Fire burns 27 miles from Spokane and 145 miles from Ellensburg, and 247 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 27 miles from Spokane and 145 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

5

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 6:45pm today

The Reservation Road Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 5 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Reservation Road Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

5hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:10pm on Thursday, local time.

1readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

6.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Springdale at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 6.2 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Loon Lake is 10.1 miles, 10.1 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

0.1miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Autumn Lane Fire 14.7 miles south-east at 5,764 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 242 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 10.9 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 37% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:08pm on 15 Oct and runs to 2:08pm on 15 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Reservation Road Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Thu 2:00pmThu 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

  1. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:08pm to 2:08pm
    • Spread 0.1 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.

  1. Thursday 15 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 15 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.