© Washington State PatrolMore than 50 homes are under Level 3 evacuation, meaning the residents need to leave their homes, according to Trooper Darren Wright.
It's unknown when the freeway, which is closed from mileposts 138 to 155, will re-open.
The fire at one point threatened about 50 homes, but Wright said Monday night officials lifted an evacuation order despite the continuing blaze.
"I don't think we have actual control, but (firefighters are) making better progress," Wright said around 6:30 p.m.
Wright said a strong wind made things difficult. About 100 firefighters and a helicopter responded to the fire, which was more than 700 acres, according to Wright.
A wildfire flared up at the same site Sunday.
"What happened on Sunday is being repeated. I-90 is closed again from the east end of the bridge at the (State Route) 26 interchange up to George," said Jeff Adamson, a spokesman for the Washington Department of Transportation.
Detours set up for Monday's fire made it easier for the department to get traffic moving quickly, Adamson said.
Drivers were being detoured around the closed area on Adams Road, Adamson said. No injuries were reported and no structures caught fire, Wright said.
Update at 6:30 a.m.
Interstate 90 remains closed in both directions Tuesday morning as a 700-acre brush fire burns near George, Grant County.
Kyle Foreman, an information officer for the Grant County Sheriff's Department, said more than 200 firefighters were working to control the blaze.
"It isn't going anywhere that's going to impact homeowners. We have a lot of resources controlling it," Foreman said.
Foreman said because firefighters are working on I-90 to contain the fire and with extremely dusty conditions, the road is unsafe for motorists.
"The fire went through and burned the grasses and sage brush," Foreman said. "The only thing left is the dust, and the winds are coming through and picking that dust up and throwing it across the highway."
Conditions Monday were primed for a fast-moving fire.
"We had the heat, we had the wind, the fuel," Foreman said.
Old-growth sagebrush in the area is so dry and winds so fierce that "it looks like it vaporizes into a wave ... everything just takes off," he added.
Foreman said this is the third large fire in as many weeks in Grant County.
"The firefighters around here are tired. It's been a very long summer so far and we're not even halfway over with the fire season," Foreman said.
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