Burning 6.4 miles south-east of Waitsburg and 6.6 miles north-east of Dixie, since Tuesday 29 September.
The fire sits 105 miles from Spokane and 122 miles from Yakima.
120
acres burned so far
16
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 9:09am today
The Whiskey Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 402 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 402 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
402hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:20pm on Monday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
6.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Waitsburg 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 Dixie is 6.5 miles, None in the last day.
0.1miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Bundy Hollow 1498 Request Fire started 169 minutes after this one, 1.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. McCowan Road Mutual Aid Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 3.5 miles west, and has reached 15 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
One larger fire is burning outside this frame: Paradise Fire 14.9 miles south at 9,656 acres. None of their heat is counted here.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 17 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 16.5 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 62% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-17 fire
The record here begins at 3:20pm on 28 Sep and runs to 3:20pm on 28 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 17, so the first 16 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.
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
Mon 3:00pmMon 3:00pm
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
Mon28 Seplatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 3:20pm to 3:20pm
Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Tuesday 29 September
First reported at 5 acres
5 ac
Tuesday 29 September
20 acres on record
20 ac
Tuesday 29 September
Grew to 120 acres
120 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 5 acres when it was first written down to 120 now. Nothing has looked at it for 402 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
