Awatchfire

Pend Oreille County, Washington

Upper Ruby Fire

Burning 10.8 miles south of Ione and 18.7 miles south of Metaline, since Wednesday 2 September.

Map of Washington. The Upper Ruby Fire burns 63 miles from Spokane and 181 miles from Ellensburg, and 274 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 63 miles from Spokane and 181 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

42

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Upper Ruby Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Pend Oreille 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.

42 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 2 September at 7:17pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.585, -117.447lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.7 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 61% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Rankin Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 8.9 miles south-east, and has reached 2 acres. Crystal Slope Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 11.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rocky Fork Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 11.7 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Maitlen Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 12.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rocky Butte Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 13.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Smalle Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 13.4 miles south, 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 2 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 3 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac