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Okanogan County, Washington

Swimptkin Fire

Burning 6.2 miles north of Disautel and 11.6 miles east of North Omak, since Tuesday 1 September.

Map of Washington. The Swimptkin Fire burns 97 miles from Spokane and 117 miles from Ellensburg, and 197 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 97 miles from Spokane and 117 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

43

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Swimptkin Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Okanogan 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.

43 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 1 September at 8:25pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.431, -119.193lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.9 miles from the fire: 56°F, air at 49% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Squirrel Spring Fire started on Monday 31 August, 7.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Chewiliken Strike Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 13.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Gold Lake III Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 13.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Stowe Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 14.8 miles north-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 185 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 1 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 2 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac