Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Rickey Canyon Fire

Burning 7.5 miles south of Kettle Falls and 8.6 miles south of Barney's Junction, since Saturday 26 September.

Map of Washington. The Rickey Canyon Fire burns 65 miles from Spokane and 154 miles from Ellensburg, and 245 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 65 miles from Spokane and 154 miles from Ellensburg.

2

acres burned so far

19

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 11:35pm today

The Rickey Canyon Fire is burning. Ground was still giving off heat 3 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Rickey Canyon 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

3hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 8:45pm on Thursday, local time.

1readings

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

5.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Kettle Falls at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 5.7 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Barney's Junction is 7.5 miles, 7.5 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.

2.3miles

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: Bradeen Hill Fire 12.9 miles south at 4,417 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 10:00am and 1:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 31 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 5.8 miles from the fire: 39°F, air at 84% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-20 fire

The record here begins at 8:47pm on 15 Oct and runs to 8:47pm on 15 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 20, so the first 19 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Rickey Canyon 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 8:00pmThu 8:00pm

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 8:47pm to 8:47pm
    • Spread 2.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the evening

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. Saturday 26 September

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac

  2. Saturday 26 September

    2 acres on record

    2 ac

  3. Saturday 26 September

    Revised to 2 acres

    2 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 2 acres when it was first written down to 2 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.