Awatchfire

Stevens County, Washington

Three Forks Fire

Burning 6.4 miles north-east of Colville and 12.2 miles east of Kettle Falls, since Wednesday 9 September.

Map of Washington. The Three Forks Fire burns 67 miles from Spokane and 169 miles from Ellensburg, and 260 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 67 miles from Spokane and 169 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

35

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Three Forks Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Stevens 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

35 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 9 September at 11:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.608, -117.796lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.6 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 49% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Crystal Slope Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 9.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Starvation Flat Fire started on Friday 28 August, 9.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Hawks Nest Fire started on Tuesday 29 September, 12.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Rickey Canyon Fire started on Saturday 26 September, 15.5 miles south-west, and has reached 2 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. Wednesday 9 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 10 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac