1,865
acres burned so far — about 3 square miles
20
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 9:37pm today
The Wells Road Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1,865 acres in Whitman 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.
100% held
100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.
99people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Human
is the cause on the official record.
20 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 8 August at 3:30pm local time, starting at 200 acres.
Type 3 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
47.240, -117.510lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
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.