Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Rocky Butte Fire

Burning 11.6 miles north-east of Chewelah and 12.6 miles north-west of Cusick, since Sunday 11 October.

Map of Washington. The Rocky Butte Fire burns 51 miles from Spokane and 170 miles from Ellensburg, and 266 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 51 miles from Spokane and 170 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

3

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Rocky Butte Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

3 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 11 October at 9:19am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.404, -117.543lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 2.2 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 50% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Smalle Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.7 miles east, and has reached 2 acres. Crystal Slope Fire started 171 minutes after this one, 9.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rankin Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 9.6 miles north-east, and has reached 2 acres. Starvation Flat Fire started on Friday 28 August, 9.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cordes Fire started on Monday 31 August, 11.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Addy Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 12.2 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 11 October

    First reported

  2. Monday 12 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac