Saturday the fire had burned 28,393 acres roughly 30 miles northwest of Leavenworth, according to fire tracking data compiled from federal incident reports , with nearly 1,000 firefighters assigned and not one percent of the perimeter secured.
Sheriff's officials pulled the levels from Chelan County's ArcGIS evacuation map, the tool residents are told to check directly rather than rely on secondhand reports, because boundaries have shifted twice in the past week alone as the fire's footprint expanded.
Fire behavior analysts have specifically flagged group torching and flanking activity on multiple days this week, both signs of a fire still finding new fuel to burn rather than one settling into a predictable, slower-moving pattern.
Fire investigators list the cause as natural, meaning no human activity is under scrutiny, unlike some of the state's other large fires this season.
Large fires had already burned more than 1.3 million acres across Oregon and Washington combined as of late July, more than the region's full-year, ten-year average with the season's traditional August-September peak still ahead, according to reporting compiled by KPTV .
The Little Giant Fire has burned 28,393 acres with zero containment in Chelan County, prompting Level 3 evacuations as a Red Flag Warning tests its uncontained eastern flank.