Awatchfire

Ferry County, Washington

Vulcan Fire

Burning 4.5 miles north-west of Curlew and 8.1 miles north-west of Malo, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Washington. The Vulcan Fire burns 103 miles from Spokane and 157 miles from Ellensburg, and 233 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 103 miles from Spokane and 157 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

2

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 6:04pm today

The Vulcan Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Ferry 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.

2 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 3:38pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

48.904, -118.695lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.0 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 87% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the south.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Cougar Creek Fire started on Monday 24 August, 13.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Hard Rock Fire started 137 minutes before this one, 10.0 miles south, 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 28 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

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. Saturday 29 August

    First reported

  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac