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Snohomish County, Washington

Sulphur Creek 2 Fire

Burning 22.8 miles east of Darrington and 24.7 miles south-east of Marblemount, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Washington. The Sulphur Creek 2 Fire burns 71 miles from Bellingham and 72 miles from Seattle, and 118 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 71 miles from Bellingham and 72 miles from Seattle.

3

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Sulphur Creek 2 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3 acres in Snohomish 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.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 1:56pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

48.258, -121.111lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.0 miles from the fire: 59°F, air at 58% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Sulphur Creek 1 Fire started 1 minutes before this one, 0.5 miles north-west, and has reached 7 acres. Miners Fire started on Friday 14 August, 3.9 miles south-east, and has reached 151 acres with 2 people assigned. Downey Creek Fire started 80 minutes before this one, 5.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Gamma Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 6.7 miles south-east, and has reached 29 acres. Long Gone Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 9.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Formidable Fire started 374 minutes after this one, 11.5 miles north, 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.

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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    1 acres on record

    1 ac

  3. Wednesday 9 September

    Grew to 3 acres

    3 ac