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.
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Saturday 29 August
First reported at 10 acres
10 ac
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Saturday 29 August
0 acres on record
0 ac
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Sunday 30 August
Grew to 112 acres
112 ac