Burning 14.3 miles south of Greenwater and 18.3 miles south-east of Carbonado, since Saturday 22 August.
The fire sits 55 miles from Ellensburg and 55 miles from Seattle.
266
acres burned so far — about 0.4 square miles
5
days burning so far
0%
of the perimeter held
The picture as of 1:52pm today
The West Fork Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 35 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 35 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
35hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Thursday, local time.
18% more
energy in the last 6 hours of the record
than in the 6 before them — the fire was
hotter when it was last seen.
14.1miles
is how close the heat has come to Greenwater 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 Carbonado is 18.2 miles, None in the last day.
0.9miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Clearwest Peak Fire started 145 minutes before this one, 4.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Garda Falls Fire started on Monday 24 August, 1.7 miles south, and has reached 40 acres. Grand Park 2 Fire started on Friday 7 August, 2.8 miles north-east, and has reached 168 acres with 111 people assigned. Pigeon Fire started 7 minutes after this one, 3.2 miles north, and has reached 8 acres. Sluiskin Fire started 6 minutes after this one, 0.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. White River Fire started 3 minutes before this one, 0.1 miles north, 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 35 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 13.0 miles from the fire: 70°F, air at 49% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
Four days of record on a day-7 fire
The record here begins at 4:07pm on 24 Aug and runs to 3:17am on 27 Aug — 59 hours, 53 readings of heat. The fire is on day 7, so the first 3 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.
The whole record, 22 frames at
3 hours
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Day by day 4 days of record
Mon24 Aug
First readings
2 heat readings
Heat from 4:07pm to 9:19pm
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon and night
Tue25 Aug
The fiercest day
18 heat readings
Energy 6.4 times the day before
Heat from 2:15am to 2:25pm
Spread 0.9 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, morning and afternoon
Wed26 Aug
Cooling off
21 heat readings — the most of any day
Energy 59% down on the day before
Heat from 1:56am to 9:00pm
Spread 0.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn, afternoon and night
Thu27 Auglatest
Cooling off
12 heat readings
Energy 78% down on the day before
Heat from 2:22am to 3:17am
Spread 0.6 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
None of the perimeter is being reported as held. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 266 now. Nothing has looked at it for 35 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
