Awatchfire

Clark County, Washington

Warehouse Fire

Burning 1.7 miles south of Orchards and 2.9 miles south-east of Five Corners, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of Washington. The Warehouse Fire burns 97 miles from Olympia and 114 miles from Yakima, and 97 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 97 miles from Olympia and 114 miles from Yakima.

2

acres burned so far

2

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 4:12pm today

The Warehouse Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 51 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 51 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Warehouse Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

51hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:20pm on Wednesday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

1.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Orchards at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Five Corners is 2.7 miles, None in the last day.

0.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 23 times so far. The thickest of it was thick between 5:00am and 8:00am local time.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 20.9 miles from the fire: 75°F, air at 39% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-3 fire

The record here begins at 1:21pm on 26 Aug and runs to 1:21pm on 26 Aug — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 3, so the first 2 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Warehouse Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Wed 1:00pmWed 1:00pm

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 1 day of record

  1. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:21pm to 1:21pm
    • Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 2 acres when it was first written down to 2 now. Nothing has looked at it for 51 hours, and the record still lists it as active.