Awatchfire

Grant County, Washington

Wildhorse Fire

Burning 2.0 miles north-east of Vantage and 7.9 miles south of Sunland Estates, since Saturday 26 September.

Map of Washington. The Wildhorse Fire burns 28 miles from Ellensburg and 38 miles from Yakima, and 138 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 28 miles from Ellensburg and 38 miles from Yakima.

20

acres burned so far

18

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Wildhorse Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 450 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 450 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Wildhorse 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

450hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:05pm on Saturday, local time.

60% less

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

2.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Vantage 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 Sunland Estates is 7.9 miles, None in the last day.

0.2miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 23.0 miles from the fire: 66°F, air at 51% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-20 fire

The record here begins at 2:25pm on 26 Sep and runs to 3:03pm on 26 Sep — 1 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 20, so the first 19 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.

Animated map of the Wildhorse Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Sat 2:00pmSat 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

  1. Map for Sat 26 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat26 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:25pm to 3:03pm
    • Spread 0.2 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.

  1. Saturday 26 September

    First reported at 20 acres

    20 ac

  2. Saturday 26 September

    20 acres on record

    20 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 20 acres when it was first written down to 20 now. Nothing has looked at it for 450 hours, and the record still lists it as active.