Awatchfire

Spokane County, Washington

Spring Creek Fire

Burning 6.2 miles north-west of Fairchild AFB and 6.9 miles east of Reardan, since Thursday 20 August.

Map of Washington. The Spring Creek Fire burns 14 miles from Spokane and 140 miles from Ellensburg, and 246 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 14 miles from Spokane and 140 miles from Ellensburg.

17

acres burned so far

55

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Spring Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 17 acres in Spokane 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

55 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 20 August at 2:00pm local time, starting at 8 acres.

47.687, -117.733lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 20.9 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 55% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Craig Corner Fire started on Friday 28 August, 6.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Autumn Lane Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 9.3 miles north-east, and has reached 5,764 acres with 43 people assigned. Old Trails Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 9.3 miles east, and has reached 3,176 acres with 14 people assigned. Eagle Lookout Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 11.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Hallett Fire started on Monday 31 August, 11.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Tucker Prairie Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 12.6 miles south, and has reached 3 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 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 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. Thursday 20 August

    First reported at 8 acres

    8 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    17 acres on record

    17 ac