White Mountain Fire
The White Mountain Fire burned 21,845 acres in Washington, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to August 25, 1988.
- Size
- 21,845 acres
- Ignition
- August 25, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 21,845 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 48.555, -118.500.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 21,845 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 22,217 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 25, 1988
- State
- Washington
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4855511850019880825
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Other
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 198811
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dinkelman Fire | 36,254 | Sep 4, 1988 | |
| S.17MILE1 Fire | 8,084 | Aug 25, 1988 | |
| Canniwai Fire | 3,576 | ||
| 30 MILE2 Fire | 2,245 | Aug 25, 1988 | |
| Paschelshe Fire | 2,155 | Oct 26, 1988 | |
| Falls Creek Fire | 2,149 | Jul 26, 1988 | |
| Jackson Spring Fire | 2,122 | Jul 22, 1988 | |
| Sherman Fire | 1,952 | Aug 29, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,907 | Sep 6, 1988 | |
| Omak Creek Fire | 1,575 | Jul 21, 1988 | |
| Cody Ridge Fire | 1,488 | Aug 25, 1988 |
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.