Wildfires of 1990

Nake Fire

1990WashingtonWildfire

The Nake Fire burned 1,582 acres in Washington, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to July 19, 1990.

Size
1,582 acres
Ignition
July 19, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,582 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.463, -119.843.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,582 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,748 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 19, 1990
State
Washington
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4646311984319900719
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 19908

FireAcresStartCause
Locustgrov Fire17,188Jul 30, 1990
Emerson Fire6,720Jul 30, 1990
Unnamed Fire2,079Jul 31, 1990
Washington Fire1,583
Mcallister Fire1,557
White River Fire1,319Jul 14, 1990
Unnamed Fire1,270Aug 14, 1990
Dick Mesa Fire1,189

Every fire of 1990 Washington fire history

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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.