Awatchfire

Yakima County, Washington

Signal Peak Fire

Burning 1.1 miles south of White Swan and 9.6 miles west of Harrah, since Friday 24 July.

Map of Washington. The Signal Peak Fire burns 18 miles from Yakima and 45 miles from Ellensburg, and 113 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 18 miles from Yakima and 45 miles from Ellensburg.

3,000

acres burned so far — about 5 square miles

82

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Signal Peak Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3,000 acres in Yakima 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

6people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

82 days

on record — first written down on Friday 24 July at 3:57pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

46.362, -120.732lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.3 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 55% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Loc- Canyon Crest Fire started on Wednesday 1 July, 13.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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. Friday 24 July

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    3,000 acres on record — 100% contained, 6 personnel assigned

    3,000 ac · 100% held · 6 crew