The fire off Highway 530 started at about 6 p.m. Thursday. It is about six miles from the area that was wiped out by a massive landslide in 2014.
According to fire officials, there was a logging operation earlier in the day that may have started the fire. They said the cause is under investigation, but the area has been logged for about a month and the line of fire followed the path where logs were being dragged up the hill.
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources officials said the fire, named "Hotshot," had burned about 55 acres by Thursday night. Firefighters let the fire burn and monitored it overnight. As of Friday morning, the fire had burned more than 100 acres. A team from the DNR is leading the operation Friday and two helicopters will be in the area to make water drops.
The fire is burning on a hillside above some homes, but fire officials believe crews can stop the fire from reaching them. No homes are in immediate danger.
But there is plenty of fuel for the fire. Because it's burning at a site where timber is being harvested, there are about 150 trees per acre that have been felled. The fire is burning through those trees, officials say, but slowly.