#WildcatFire This fire has been marked as fully contained and should stay confined to its boundaries, FINAL UPDATE
#WildcatFire Some great news from crews working on the Wildcat Fire! Containment has been increased from 40% to 90%, this fire is nearing its full end with even more rain and snow in the forecast! Fire season is over!! 🎉
Update regarding the 4 biggest of 6 Washington State Wildfires:
#LowerSugarloafFire
Acres: 42,979.5
Contained: 99%
#LaborMountainFire
Acres: 42,967.2
Contained: 69%
#BearGulchFire
Acres: 20,232.9
Contained: 20%
#WildcatFire
Acres: 15,591.6
Contained: 40%
No evacs on any fires!
In just now from Watch Duty from the #WildcatFire burning near Crystal Mountain, near 410. Great news, all evacuation orders have been lifted which was the Level 2 evacuation remaining. #wawx
Plume of smoke being produced by the #WildcatFire this afternoon/evening. Hopefully the incoming rain helps suppress the multitude of fires across WA
#wawx #pnw #Wildfires
Thursday was a bad day for fires in the Cascades. The #LaborMountainFire crossed US-97 and grew nearly 8K acres. The #LowerSugarloafFire grew 4K acres to the SE, with new level 3 evacuations. The #WildcatFire grew too, getting very close to Goose Prairie. #wawx
Blurry phone photo of the #WildcatFire pyrocumulus cloud and a barren Mt. Rainier as seen from northern Bainbridge Island around 6:10 PM Saturday. #wawx
Quite a bit of activity on the Wildcat Fire today. This is a ~30 minute time lapse taken from the Ironstone Mountain Trail late this afternoon. Triangular peak in foreground is Mt. Aix.
#WildcatFire #wawx
Drone shot on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 2nd, as the smoke plume from the #WildcatFire blew north over Cle Elum. The fire would go on to grow over 3,000 acres in the ensuing 24 hours. #wawx
Fingers crossed for some rain over the #WildcatFire and #LowerSugarloafFire tonight to help dampen potential fuel sources and scour out some of this smoke #wawx #wawildfire
Nice storm over the #WildcatFire right now, hopefully bringing some much needed rain without too much lightning! #wawx
Unfortunately, it appears the heavier rain totals missed the #WildcatFire. #wawx #wawildfire
We’ve got shower and thunderstorm activity moving NW this morning off the Cascades. How far it lasts is questionable, but decaying storms are producing some rain over Thurston County (high-based storms), and there has been lightning over the Cascades near the #WildcatFire. #wawx
Caught a glimpse of the #WildcatFire off of SR-410 earlier this evening as the full moon rose behind Tahtlum Peak #wawx
We’re seeing pyrocumulus plumes off the #WildcatFire, east of Mt. Rainier, and the #LaborMountainFire, north of Cle Elum this Friday afternoon. Some of this smoke, blowing NW, is rapidly degrading AQI around parts of Seattle and Lake Washington. #wawx
UP-CLOSE video (and timelapses) from the #WildcatFire on Thursday evening, as it exhibited extreme fire behavior and grew 3,000 acres in 24 hours. #wawx
9-3-2025: Chinook Pass, WA: Wildcat Fire Up-Close Views, Timelapse, Grows 3K Acres in 1 Day
youtu.be/OXf4LrwJUl0
Asà se veÃa el estado de Washington🇺🇸 desde el GOES-19 ayer a última hora de la tarde. Totalmente cubierto por el humo de decenas de incendios forestales. Destaca el inmenso pirocumulonimbus #PyroCb del #WildcatFire que podrÃa perfectamente haber alcanzado los 13K metros de altitud:
This is no typical anvil cloud, it’s the anvil cloud from unusual pyrocumulonimbus activity stemming from the #WildcatFire.
Current view from Cle Elum, WA #wawx
Here we go… #wawx #WildcatFire
Really worrying to see the #Wildcatfire headed towards the the PCT and Chinook Pass - I hate to see this one explode in one of my favorite places in the Cascades. We need rain ASAP. #wawx
#PyroCumulonimbus #WildcatFire version.
WOW…we’ve got lightning in the #WildcatFire now. This is a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, and the fire is rapidly growing. Extraordinary. #wawx
Wow, the #WildcatFire is burning so extreme, it just produced a lightning strike. #wawx #wawildfire
3:40 PM view of the #WildcatFire pyrocumulonimbus cloud from Federal Way, 55 miles NW of the fire. Radar estimating it at 38,000 feet. Extraordinary. #wawx
Fires around the region are burning hot on satellite imagery. I've overlaid longwave IR satellite to show clouds. The #WildcatFire is stealing the show with cold cloud tops over the fire. These are pycrocumulus extending more than 35,000 feet into the atmosphere. #wawx #wawildfire
3:15 PM satellite: Seeing a major pyrocumulonimbus cloud (radar estimated 32,000 feet) off the #WildcatFire, while the #LowerSugarloafFire is producing a smaller pyrocumulus cloud too. The #BearGulchFire and multiple fires clustered in NE WA are producing major smoke too. #wawx
Extreme fire behavior on the #WildcatFire this afternoon. PyroCb for several hours now, cloud tops up to 37,000 feet on radar #wawx #wawildfire
A pyroCb rises above the haze on the #WildcatFire. #wawx #wawildfire
Impressive pyrocumulus on the #WildcatFire Wednesday afternoon. #wawx #wawildfire