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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.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 4:41pm today

The Soap Lake 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.

2 hours

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

48.243, -119.626lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.4 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 70% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south-east.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 31 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 9 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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