Coulee City Fire
The Coulee City Fire burned 12,807 acres in Washington, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to July 14, 1987.
- Size
- 12,807 acres
- Ignition
- July 14, 1987
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,807 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 47.584, -119.253.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 12,807 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 20,469 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 14, 1987
- State
- Washington
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4758311936819870714
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Hand Sketch
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Washington in 19875
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambing Fire | 9,454 | Jul 15, 1987 | |
| Monse Fire | 7,659 | Oct 3, 1987 | |
| Sachs Fire | 4,005 | ||
| Drilling Fire | 1,514 | ||
| Naches Fire | 1,409 |
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. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. 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.