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Okanogan County, Washington

Six Mile Fire

Burning 14.0 miles north-west of Winthrop and 22.0 miles north-west of Twisp, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Washington. The Six Mile Fire burns 97 miles from Bellingham and 113 miles from Ellensburg, and 161 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 97 miles from Bellingham and 113 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

48

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Six Mile Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Okanogan 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.

48 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 27 August at 12:15pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.636, -120.360lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.5 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 48% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Ramsey Peak Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 11.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. South Apple Fire started on Tuesday 4 August, 13.2 miles south-east, 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. Thursday 27 August

    First reported

  2. Thursday 27 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac