Awatchfire

Ferry County, Washington

Whitestone Fire

Burning 12.5 miles south-east of Keller and 15.2 miles north of Creston, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Washington. The Whitestone Fire burns 54 miles from Spokane and 117 miles from Ellensburg, and 215 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 54 miles from Spokane and 117 miles from Ellensburg.

0

acres burned so far

46

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Whitestone Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Ferry 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.

46 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 2:45pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

47.979, -118.496lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 20.5 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 55% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Silver Creek Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 9.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. SA-Trail Creek II Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 10.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Modrite Fire started on Friday 17 July, 10.5 miles north-east, and has reached 57,594 acres with 6 people assigned. Jack Creek II Fire started 87 minutes before this one, 12.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Pierre Campground Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 12.1 miles east, and has reached 2 acres. O-Ra-Pak-En Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 13.8 miles east, 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 29 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 30 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac