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Kittitas County, Washington

Thorpe Prairie Fire

Burning 5.3 miles north-west of Thorp and 10.3 miles south-east of South Cle Elum, since Wednesday 8 July.

Map of Washington. The Thorpe Prairie Fire burns 13 miles from Ellensburg and 37 miles from Yakima, and 100 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 13 miles from Ellensburg and 37 miles from Yakima.

2

acres burned so far

98

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Thorpe Prairie Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in Kittitas 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.

98 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 8 July at 9:50pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

47.110, -120.763lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.0 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 72% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Osborn Point Fire started on Monday 21 September, 7.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Cove Road Fire started on Friday 19 June, 9.7 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Alliance Road Fire started on Monday 31 August, 11.6 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 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 257 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. Wednesday 8 July

    First reported

  2. Monday 7 September

    2 acres on record

    2 ac