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Pend Oreille County, Washington

Rocky Fork Fire

Burning 7.3 miles east of Ione and 11.3 miles south-east of Metaline, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Rocky Fork Fire burns 72 miles from Spokane and 192 miles from Ellensburg, and 285 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 72 miles from Spokane and 192 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

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

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 11:42am local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.707, -117.271lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.1 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 51% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Maitlen Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Upper Ruby Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 11.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Linton Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 13.0 miles north-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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Tuesday 25 August

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac