Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Rez Canyon Fire

Burning 13.2 miles south-west of Springdale and 15.7 miles west of Suncrest, since Sunday 4 October.

Map of Washington. The Rez Canyon Fire burns 28 miles from Spokane and 138 miles from Ellensburg, and 240 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 28 miles from Spokane and 138 miles from Ellensburg.

1

acres burned so far

10

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Rez Canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Stevens 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

10 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 4 October at 5:00pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

47.906, -117.921lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.2 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 50% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Cayuse Mountain Fire started on Monday 7 September, 6.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Grouse Ridge Fire started on Friday 18 September, 6.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Deer Strike Fire started on Monday 7 September, 7.4 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Owl Strike Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 10.5 miles north-west, and has reached 2 acres. Gennett Road Fire started on Monday 7 September, 10.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Hidden Road Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 13.1 miles north-east, 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.

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 233 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. Sunday 4 October

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Monday 5 October

    1 acres on record

    1 ac