Wildfires of 1978

Rye Grass Fire

1978WashingtonWildfire

The Rye Grass Fire burned 2,574 acres in Washington, in 1978. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
2,574 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,574 acres, mapped by hand sketch. Middle of the perimeter, 46.401, -118.902.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
2,574 acres
State
Washington
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1978-UNK-006851
Perimeter map method
Hand Sketch

Other large fires in Washington in 19781

FireAcresStartCause
Lt BEAVER1 Fire1,975

Every fire of 1978 Washington fire history

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.