Awatchfire

Whatcom County, Washington

South Bay Fire

Burning 3.1 miles south-east of Sudden Valley and 5.0 miles north of Alger, since Wednesday 16 September.

Map of Washington. The South Bay Fire burns 9 miles from Bellingham and 73 miles from Seattle, and 117 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 9 miles from Bellingham and 73 miles from Seattle.

0

acres burned so far

28

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The South Bay Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Whatcom 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.

28 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 16 September at 4:22pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.683, -122.315lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 23.6 miles from the fire: 64°F, air at 32% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Eagle Park Fire started on Thursday 24 September, 11.6 miles north-east, 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. Wednesday 16 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 17 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac