Awatchfire

Okanogan County, Washington

Soap Lake Fire

Burning 4.7 miles south-east of Malott and 8.9 miles south of Okanogan, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Washington. The Soap Lake Fire burns 96 miles from Ellensburg and 109 miles from Spokane, and 173 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 96 miles from Ellensburg and 109 miles from Spokane.

112

acres burned so far

46

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Soap Lake Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 112 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

46 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 2:56pm local time, starting at 10 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.243, -119.626lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.4 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 52% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the south.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Nickles Fire started on Thursday 17 September, 5.8 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. B And O Fire started on Thursday 9 July, 7.7 miles north, and has reached 2,762 acres with 200 people assigned. 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. Saturday 29 August

    First reported at 10 acres

    10 ac
  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 112 acres

    112 ac