Awatchfire

Lincoln County, Washington

Sprague Fire

Burning 1.2 miles west of Sprague and 8.1 miles north-west of Lamont, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Washington. The Sprague Fire burns 36 miles from Spokane and 122 miles from Ellensburg, and 231 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 36 miles from Spokane and 122 miles from Ellensburg.

16

acres burned so far

26

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 8:33pm today

The Sprague Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 6 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Sprague Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

6hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:05pm on Friday, local time.

2readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

1.0miles

is how close the heat has come to Sprague at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 1.0 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Lamont is 8.1 miles, 8.1 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

0.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 20 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 18.3 miles from the fire: 74°F, air at 27% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-2 fire

The record here begins at 2:06pm on 28 Aug and runs to 2:06pm on 28 Aug — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 2, so the first day is missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Sprague Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Fri 2:00pmFri 2:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Fri 28 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri28 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:06pm to 2:06pm
    • Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 5 acres when it was first written down to 16 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.