Awatchfire

Whatcom County, Washington

Scramble Creek Fire

Burning 16.6 miles north of Marblemount and 21.5 miles north of Rockport, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Scramble Creek Fire burns 46 miles from Bellingham and 90 miles from Seattle, and 137 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 46 miles from Bellingham and 90 miles from Seattle.

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 Scramble Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Whatcom 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 12:18pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.781, -121.461lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 22.2 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 99% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north-east.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Triumph Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 6.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Electric Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 9.0 miles south, and has reached 495 acres with 4 people assigned. Falls Creek Fire started 27 minutes after this one, 11.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Luna Fire started on Thursday 2 July, 11.8 miles east, and has reached 8,553 acres with 5 people assigned. Olson Creek Fire started on Monday 7 September, 14.8 miles south, 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