Awatchfire

Chelan County, Washington

Washington Fire

Burning 6.6 miles north of Chelan and 8.9 miles south-west of Pateros, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Washington. The Washington Fire burns 70 miles from Ellensburg and 97 miles from Yakima, and 149 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 70 miles from Ellensburg and 97 miles from Yakima.

30

acres burned so far

53

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Washington Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 30 acres in Chelan 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.

53 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 22 August at 11:08am local time, starting at 10 acres.

47.938, -119.986lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 13.3 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 54% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Brown Fire started 4 minutes after this one, 1.5 miles north-east, and has reached 1 acres. Water Tower Fire started 8 minutes after this one, 2.9 miles west, and has reached 1 acres. Mcginty Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 4.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cooper Fire started 59 minutes before this one, 7.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Ivan Fire started on Saturday 30 May, 7.6 miles west, and has reached 3 acres. Antilon Fire started 34 minutes after this one, 8.0 miles west, 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.

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. Saturday 22 August

    First reported at 10 acres

    10 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    30 acres on record

    30 ac