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Get the Chelan, WA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
On June 8, 2024, a 10-to-15-acre (4.0 to 6.1 ha) fire was reported on private land near Pioneer Creek about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Chelan in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The cause is undetermined and remains under investigation, but is suspected to have originated from a human-caused structure fire.
Lake Chelan (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ n / shə-LAN) is a narrow, 50.5 mi (81.3 km) long lake in Chelan County, north-central Washington state, U.S. [1] It is an overdeepened lake and resembles a fjord, with an average width of 1.3 mi (2.1 km). Near its upper end, the lake surface lies more than 6,600 ft (2,000 m) below peaks less than 3 mi (4.8 km) away.
August 10 53,523 0 0 Firefighter and flames: Douglas County Complex [n 1] Douglas County Complex Douglas July 10 22,337 [28] 0 0 0 contained July 15 First Creek Fire [26] Chelan August 14 7,490 [25] 19 [25] Goodell Fire [29] Upper Skagit Complex: Skagit: August 10 7,111 0 0 Graves Mountain fire [30] Colville & Kettle: Ferry August 14 8,557
Jun. 11—MOSES LAKE — A wildfire along the shore of Lake Chelan necessitated the evacuation of some hikers Saturday, according to a statement from the Chelan County Sheriff's Office. The fire ...
Jul. 11—MOSES LAKE — The Pioneer Fire burning along the eastern shore of Lake Chelan is still growing, and was at 12,265 acres Wednesday, according to the Washington State Department of ...
The ban was issued in response to several large, human-caused wildfires amid the statewide drought emergency and drier-than-normal weather across Washington. The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan, which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). [2]
Chelan (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ n / shə-LAN) is a city in Chelan County, Washington, United States. The estimated population was 4,222 at the 2020 census. [5] It lies on the southeast tip of Lake Chelan, where the lake flows into the Chelan River. Chelan is part of the Wenatchee−East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area.