Awatchfire

Ferry County, Washington

Rocky Point Fire

Burning 2.5 miles north-west of Twin Lakes and 8.2 miles south-west of Inchelium, since Friday 2 October.

Map of Washington. The Rocky Point Fire burns 62 miles from Spokane and 135 miles from Ellensburg, and 227 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 62 miles from Spokane and 135 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

12

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:37pm today

The Rocky Point Fire is easing, but far from out. The last heat was seen 3 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Rocky Point 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 1:30pm on Thursday, local time.

83% less

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

1.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Twin Lakes at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.6 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Inchelium is 8.6 miles, 8.6 in the last day.

1.6miles

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 12.6 miles east at 4,417 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 12 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 8:10am and 10:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 7 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

One place is burning

1.1 miles south of the recorded point

16 readings of heat in the last day — all of the heat seen in that time.

Conditions measured 21.6 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 49% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

Three days of record on a day-14 fire

The record here begins at 2:08pm on 13 Oct and runs to 1:29pm on 15 Oct — 47 hours, 38 readings of heat. The fire is on day 14, so the first 11 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 Rocky Point Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 18 frames at 3 hours a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Tue 2:00pmThu 1:00pm

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 3 days of record

  1. Map for Tue 13 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue13 Oct

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:08pm to 9:06pm
    • Spread 1.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon and night
  2. Map for Wed 14 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed14 Oct

    The fiercest day

    • 19 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 2.7 times the day before
    • Heat from 2:22am to 3:40pm
    • Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  3. Map for Thu 15 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu15 Octlatest

    Cooling off

    • 16 heat readings
    • Energy 61% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:05am to 1:29pm
    • Spread 1.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and 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. Friday 2 October

    First reported

  2. Saturday 3 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.