Awatchfire

Benton County, Washington

Second Street Fire

Burning 0.8 miles south-east of Benton City and 5.7 miles south-west of West Richland, since Friday 25 September.

Map of Washington. The Second Street Fire burns 56 miles from Yakima and 73 miles from Ellensburg, and 171 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 56 miles from Yakima and 73 miles from Ellensburg.

1,149

acres burned so far — about 2 square miles

19

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Second Street Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 474 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 474 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Second Street 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

474hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:45pm on Friday, local time.

0readings

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

1.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Benton City at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to West Richland is 6.1 miles, None in the last day.

0.6miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 23.7 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 73% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-21 fire

The record here begins at 2:46pm on 25 Sep and runs to 2:46pm on 25 Sep — 0 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 21, so the first 20 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 Second Street 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

Fri 2:00pmFri 2:00pm

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 Fri 25 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri25 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:46pm to 2:46pm
    • Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the 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 25 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 25 September

    1,000 acres on record

    1,000 ac

  3. Friday 25 September

    Grew to 1,149 acres

    1,149 ac

  4. Saturday 26 September

    Grew to 1,151 acres — containment 60%, 128 personnel

    1,151 ac · 60% held · 128 crew

  5. Saturday 26 September

    Revised to 1,149 acres

    1,149 ac · 60% held · 128 crew

  6. Sunday 27 September

    Grew to 1,151 acres — containment 95%

    1,151 ac · 95% held · 128 crew

  7. Monday 28 September

    Revised to 1,149 acres

    1,149 ac · 95% held · 128 crew

  8. Monday 12 October

    Containment 100%

    1,149 ac · 100% held · 128 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 128 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 1,149 now. Nothing has looked at it for 474 hours, and the record still lists it as active.