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.
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Saturday 29 August
First reported
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Saturday 29 August
0 acres on record
0 ac