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On the weekend of October 15–16, easterly winds over the Cascades brought dry, subsiding air and record temperatures to the Puget Sound area. The weather conditions contributed to the initiation and expansion of fires on the west slopes of the Cascades, [16] and the worst air quality of the season so far occurred in Seattle that weekend. [17]
The Evans Canyon Fire, a few miles north of Naches, was ignited around August 31 and expanded to tens of thousands of acres, shut down Washington State Route 821 in the Yakima River Canyon, burned several homes and caused hundreds of families to evacuate, and caused unhealthy air quality in Yakima County. [22]
Smoke from this fire and other fires in inland Washington and British Columbia was pushed towards Western Washington and rapid convective mixing caused unhealthy air quality in Seattle on August 20–21. [20] [21] The Gray Fire was ignited on August 18 near Medical Lake in Spokane County and grew to over 9,500 acres (3,800 ha) within a day.
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The 2021 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2021. By late April, all of Eastern Washington had been classified by the United States Drought Monitor as "abnormally dry" with moderate to severe drought conditions. [2] The state had more than 630 wildfires by the first week of July, on par with the state's record 2015 wildfire ...
Washington power outage map As of 12:01 p.m. ET Thursday, there were over 321,000 power outages reported across the state of Washington, according to a USA TODAY power outage tracker .
Washington power outage map: Bomb cyclone knocks out power to nearly 400,000 homes, businesses ... there were about 396,000 power outages reported across the state of Washington as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
Smoke primarily from wildfires burning in Canada, as well as the Gray Fire and two other fires in Spokane County caused Spokane, Washington to have the worst air quality in the United States for two days, on August 19 and August 20. Air quality index levels reached a peak level of 511 in Spokane in the morning of August 20. [19]