UTL -Goat Creek

The UTL -Goat Creek fire is an active nonstatistical fire in Okanogan County, Washington. It was first dispatched on 2026-09-29 at 16:42:25.572. The location provided is at 48.582236, -120.374708, and the dispatch center is Central Washington in Wenatchee.

An InciWeb daily update dated 2026-09-21 identifies this as the Goat Fire and reported it at 815 acres and 80 percent contained. That same update lists the fire start date as 08/22/26 and the cause as lightning. The dispatch acreage was not provided in the available facts.

According to the InciWeb daily update dated 2026-09-21, crews on the Goat Fire continued patrol and equipment removal. The same update stated that at 7 PM that day, the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Type 3 Team would assume command from Northwest Team 2, and that it would be the final update unless conditions changed.

Evacuation details specific to the Goat Fire were not provided in the available facts. The InciWeb update directs the public to the Kittitas County Emergency Management live evacuation map at tinyurl.com/ThreeQueensEvacuations and to facebook.com/KittitasCountySheriff for the latest information.

Closure details specific to this fire, including named roads, highways, forest roads, or mileposts, were not provided in the available facts. The InciWeb update says the latest closure order and map can be found through the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest alerts page.

Weather information in the InciWeb update dated 2026-09-21 called for warmer conditions, with temperatures in the upper 60s to mid 70s, relative humidity around 30 to 40 percent, and northwest winds at 8 mph with gusts up to 15 mph.

Resources information provided in the update includes a total personnel count of 435 and a transition in command at 7 PM on 2026-09-21 to the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Type 3 Team from Northwest Team 2. The fire information line listed in that update was 509-213-5294, available 8 AM to 8 PM, with email contact at 2026.threequeens@firenet.gov. No incident commander, assigned aircraft, unit list, or camera information was provided in the available facts.