Awatchfire

Pierce County, Washington

White River Fire

Burning 14.2 miles south of Greenwater and 18.3 miles south-east of Carbonado, since Saturday 22 August.

Map of Washington. The White River Fire burns 55 miles from Seattle and 55 miles from Ellensburg, and 56 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 55 miles from Seattle and 55 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

53

days burning so far

0%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 9:09am today

The White River Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1062 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1062 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the White River 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 Where another fire is recorded

1062hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:25am on Tuesday, local time.

0readings

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

14.0miles

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 17.8 miles, None in the last day.

0.4miles

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 141 minutes before this one, 4.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Garda Falls Fire started on Monday 24 August, 1.8 miles south, and has reached 73 acres. Grand Park 2 Fire started on Friday 7 August, 2.8 miles north-east, and has reached 168 acres with 17 people assigned. Pigeon Fire started 11 minutes after this one, 3.1 miles north, and has reached 9 acres. Sluiskin Fire started 9 minutes after this one, 0.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. West Fork Fire started 3 minutes after this one, 0.1 miles south, and has reached 310 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 12.9 miles from the fire: 65°F, air at 39% humidity, a 28 mph wind out of the east.

How it got here

Four days of record on a day-55 fire

The record here begins at 2:15am on 25 Aug and runs to 3:24am on 1 Sep — 169 hours, 12 readings of heat. The fire is on day 55, so the first 51 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.

Animated map of the White River Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 59 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

  1. Map for Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Aug

    First readings

    • 8 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 2:15am to 12:47pm
    • Spread 0.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn and afternoon
  2. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 2 heat readings
    • Energy 96% down on the day before
    • Heat from 1:56am to 3:17am
    • Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  3. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Aug

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 75% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:17am to 3:17am
    • Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn
  4. Map for Tue 1 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue1 Seplatest

    Today so far

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 1.0 times the day before
    • Heat from 3:24am to 3:24am
    • Spread 0.1 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 0 acres — containment 0%

    0 ac · 0% held

  4. Thursday 27 August

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac · 0% held

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 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1062 hours, and the record still lists it as active.