Awatchfire

Pend Oreille County, Washington

Southshore Fire

Burning 6.7 miles south-west of Newport and 8.3 miles south-west of Oldtown, since Tuesday 27 October.

Map of Washington. The Southshore Fire burns 34 miles from Spokane and 175 miles from Ellensburg, and 277 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 34 miles from Spokane and 175 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:38am today

The Southshore Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Pend Oreille 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.

1 hour

on record — first written down on Tuesday 27 October at 8:24am local time, starting at 0 acres.

48.131, -117.181lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 15.5 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 92% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Scotia Fire started on Saturday 17 October, 3.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Freedom Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 5.6 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Roberts Road Fire started on Sunday 6 September, 8.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Sherman Road Fire started on Monday 24 August, 14.3 miles south-west, 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 161 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. Tuesday 27 October

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 27 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac