Little Giant Fire

August 15, 2026 · Morning report · Plain, Washington

Data captured Aug 15, 8:11 AM PDT · unofficial & automated — in an emergency use Watch Duty and official alerts, not this page

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Another quiet cycle at the perimeter — acreage unchanged, no zone edited anywhere on the fire, and the house stays outside every zone — but the GIS map itself hasn't refreshed since yesterday morning, and one new, unverified heat detection appeared today 7.9 mi NNE, right beside an existing persistent cluster. Air quality is mixed: modeled AQI eased to 150 from last night's 169, but PM2.5 nearly doubled to 62.2 µg/m³, and today carries a real thunderstorm chance worth watching for outflow.

Evacuation status

The Bennetts' house is outside every evacuation zone.

Nearest zone boundary: Little Giant Level 1 (get ready), 2 mi NNE of the house — boundary last moved Jul 31, 11:17 AM PDT.

Fire size128,085 acGIS perimeter of Aug 14, 6:02 AM PDT

Contained10%+3 pts since last report

Nearest fire edge8.1 miN of the house · as of Aug 14, 6:02 AM PDT

Satellite heat, 24 h7.2 minearest detection, N of the house · 534 in the surrounding ~50 mi

Air quality150 AQIUnhealthy for sensitive groups · modeled at the house

County road blocksnonelogged by the county · construction delays are in Roads, below

Level 3 — Go now
Level 2 — Get set
Level 1 — Get ready
Fire perimeter
Satellite heat, 24 h (brighter = fresher)
The Bennetts' house

Evacuation zones from the Chelan County Sheriff's live layer; fire perimeter from NIFC as of Aug 14, 6:02 AM PDT. Base geography is hand-plotted and approximate. Rings mark straight-line miles from the house. Containment lines are not mapped — no public GIS source carries them; the brief describes where they are.

The last 24 hours

The GIS perimeter still reads 128,085 acres, unchanged from last night, with containment up three points to 10%. The timestamp on that reading is itself the story: it's still Aug 14, 6:02 AM PDT — the same capture the last two briefs cited — so the map hasn't refreshed in over 33 hours. InciWeb's Aug 14, 10:03 AM update (again a day behind, carrying 127,771 acres/5%) describes Division M continuing structure defense along the Entiat River and Entiat River Road — not the Plain side — with 2,122 personnel, 58 engines, 51 crews, and 5 helicopters assigned. Chelan County's evacuation-zone page is still stuck on its Aug 13, 11:01 AM update with the pre-redraw Trinity boundaries.

No zone was edited anywhere on the fire since the last report. The two Plain-side zones — Level 3 "Go Now" at 5.1 mi N and Level 2 "Get Set" at 4.9 mi N — are unchanged since Wednesday; Level 1 "Get Ready," 2 mi NNE, remains the closest zone overall and is unchanged since July 31. The house stays outside every zone.

One new item: a heat cluster at 7.9 mi NNE, 7 detections, all from today only (persistent: false, max FRP 18.05) — flagged UNVERIFIED. It sits about 0.2 mi from an established, multi-day persistent cluster at 7.7 mi N, so it reads more like continued activity on the existing fire edge than a new start, but nothing in today's sweep (InciWeb, Lake Chelan Now, Chelan County EM, Washington Smoke Blog, and a general search for Aug 15 developments) confirms or contradicts that — it will need tomorrow's pass to resolve. lakewenatcheeinfo.com again returned no usable content this cycle; wasmoke.blogspot.com's most recent post remains from earlier in the fire.

Fire weather

Mixed for today, favorable for the week. This afternoon brings SE winds 0–8 mph with a 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms between roughly 11 AM and 5 PM — an outflow-risk window, since thunderstorm gusts can run any direction regardless of the prevailing flow. No Red Flag Warning is active. Tonight shifts to NW ~5 mph, and Sunday through Wednesday holds NW/W winds at 1–10 mph with no north or northeast component — no signal down the Chiwawa or White River drainages toward Plain.

Air quality

Improved on the index, worse on the pollutant: modeled AQI is 150 (Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups, essentially the top of that band), down from last night's 169. PM2.5 nearly doubled to 62.2 µg/m³, from 34.6. The Air Quality Alert issued yesterday runs through 11:15 AM today; no successor has posted yet.

Roads: no new blocks logged.

The plan, decided in advance

If a Level 1 zone reaches the house: confirm go-bags, documents, and medications are staged; keep both vehicles above half a tank; recheck this page and Watch Duty morning and evening.
If Level 2 reaches the house: load the cars, position them facing out, and leave early if anyone is home alone or mobility-limited. Do not wait for Level 3 to decide.
If Level 3 reaches the house — leave immediately: primary route Beaver Valley Rd → SR 207 → US 2; alternate Chumstick Hwy to Leavenworth (mind the pilot-car delays); US 2 west over Stevens Pass if east is compromised.

Default plan drafted from Ready-Set-Go guidance — worth a family walk-through while things are calm. Authorities' instructions override it.

Evacuation zones, measured from the house

Zone	Level	From the house	Boundary last edited
Little Giant	Level 1	2 mi NNE (19°)	Jul 31, 11:17 AM PDT
Little Giant	Level 2	4.9 mi N (355°)	Aug 13, 1:27 PM PDT
Little Giant	Level 3	5.1 mi N (10°)	Aug 13, 1:30 PM PDT
LG Entiat	Level 3	8.4 mi ENE (58°)	Aug 10, 9:31 AM PDT
LG Entiat	Level 2	10.8 mi ESE (104°)	Aug 8, 6:15 PM PDT
LG Entiat	Level 1	12.3 mi ESE (115°)	Aug 8, 5:51 PM PDT
LG Chelan	Level 3	15.1 mi NE (53°)	Aug 13, 2:24 PM PDT
LG Chelan	Level 2	16 mi ENE (76°)	Aug 13, 2:24 PM PDT
LG Chelan	Level 1	17.2 mi E (85°)	Aug 13, 1:33 PM PDT
LG Manson	Level 3	23 mi NNE (33°)	Aug 1, 8:16 PM PDT
LG Manson	Level 2	23.9 mi NE (42°)	Aug 1, 8:12 PM PDT
LG Manson	Level 1	25.4 mi ENE (59°)	Aug 2, 1:25 PM PDT

Zone geometry comes only from the Sheriff's GIS layer — news descriptions of boundaries have run 10+ days behind the actual polygon edits. Distances are straight-line to the zone boundary.

Wind and weather, next four days

Air Quality Alert — in effect until Aug 15, 11:15 AM PDT

TodaySE 0 to 8 mphAreas Of Smoke · 82°F
TonightNW 3 to 7 mphSmoke · 53°F
SundayNW 3 mphHaze · 84°F
Sunday NightNW 5 mphPartly Cloudy · 54°F
MondayW 1 to 8 mphMostly Sunny · 86°F
Monday NightW 8 mphPartly Cloudy · 52°F
TuesdayW 5 to 10 mphMostly Sunny · 83°F
Tuesday NightW 10 mphPartly Cloudy · 51°F

Report history

Report	Fire size (GIS)	Contained	Nearest edge	Zone status
Sep 17 · Evening	172,814 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 17 · Morning	172,814 ac+109	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 16 · Evening	172,705 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 16 · Morning	172,705 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 15 · Evening	172,705 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 15 · Morning	172,705 ac+22	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 14 · Evening	172,683 ac−12	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones

Previous reports(69)

Sep 14 · Morning	172,695 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 13 · Evening	172,695 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 13 · Morning	172,695 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 12 · Evening	172,695 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 12 · Morning	172,695 ac+103	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 11 · Evening	172,592 ac+191	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 11 · Morning	172,401 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 10 · Evening	172,401 ac+4	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 10 · Morning	172,397 ac+198	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 9 · Evening	172,199 ac+32	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 9 · Morning	172,167 ac+641	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 8 · Morning	171,526 ac+68	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 7 · Evening	171,458 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 7 · Morning	171,458 ac+295	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 6 · Evening	171,163 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 6 · Morning	171,163 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 5 · Evening	171,163 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 5 · Morning	171,163 ac+178	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 4 · Evening	170,985 ac	81%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 4 · Morning	170,985 ac+17	73%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 3 · Evening	170,968 ac+213	65%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 3 · Morning	170,755 ac	65%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 2 · Evening	170,755 ac+110	49%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 2 · Morning	170,645 ac+5	49%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 1 · Evening	170,640 ac−144	49%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Sep 1 · Morning	170,784 ac	49%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Aug 31 · Evening	170,784 ac+7,706	49%	5.2 mi NNE	outside all zones
Aug 31 · Morning	163,078 ac−11	49%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 30 · Evening	163,089 ac+535	27%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 30 · Morning	162,554 ac+14	27%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 29 · Evening	162,540 ac+296	27%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 29 · Morning	162,244 ac−717	27%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 28 · Evening	162,961 ac+1,829	25%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 28 · Morning	161,132 ac+11,271	25%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 27 · Evening	149,861 ac	23%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 27 · Morning	149,861 ac	23%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 26 · Evening	149,861 ac+2,235	23%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 26 · Morning	147,626 ac	23%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 25 · Evening	147,626 ac+1,584	21%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 25 · Morning	146,042 ac	21%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 24 · Evening	146,042 ac+1,212	15%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 24 · Morning	144,830 ac	15%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 23 · Evening	144,830 ac+2,604	15%	5.2 mi NNE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 23 · Morning	142,226 ac	15%	5.3 mi NE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 22 · Evening	142,226 ac+8	15%	5.3 mi NE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 22 · Morning	142,218 ac+2,731	15%	5.3 mi NE	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 21 · Evening	139,487 ac	12%	6.6 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 21 · Morning	139,487 ac+910	12%	6.6 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 20 · Evening	138,577 ac+102	12%	6.6 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 20 · Morning	138,475 ac+882	12%	6.6 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 19 · Evening	137,593 ac+299	10%	6.7 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 19 · Morning	137,294 ac+1,309	10%	6.8 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 18 · Evening	135,985 ac	10%	7 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 18 · Morning	135,985 ac+1,350	10%	7 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 17 · Evening	134,635 ac+2,284	10%	7.1 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 17 · Morning	132,351 ac	10%	7.3 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 16 · Evening	132,351 ac	10%	7.3 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 16 · Morning	132,351 ac+4,266	10%	7.3 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 15 · Evening	128,085 ac	10%	8.1 mi N	Little Giant - Level 1 (Get Ready)
Aug 15 · Morning	128,085 ac	10%	8.1 mi N	outside all zones
Aug 14 · Evening	128,085 ac	7%	8.1 mi N	outside all zones
Aug 14 · Morning	128,085 ac−219	7%	8.1 mi N	outside all zones
Aug 13 · Evening	128,304 ac+533	5%	8.1 mi N	outside all zones
Aug 13 · Morning	127,771 ac+283	5%	8.1 mi N	outside all zones
Aug 12 · Evening	127,488 ac	5%	8.6 mi NNW	outside all zones
Aug 12 · Morning	127,488 ac+5,087	5%	8.6 mi NNW	outside all zones
Aug 11 · Evening	122,401 ac	2%	8.6 mi NNW	outside all zones
Aug 11 · Morning	122,401 ac+5,445	2%	8.6 mi NNW	outside all zones
Aug 10 · Evening	116,956 ac	2%	8.6 mi NNW	outside all zones

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This page is an automated, unofficial synthesis and can be wrong or stale. It is not a substitute for official alerts. For live evacuation status use Watch Duty, Chelan County Emergency Management, and Everbridge alerts. In an emergency, follow instructions from local authorities.