Wildfires of 1990

White River Fire

1990WashingtonWildfire

The White River Fire burned 1,319 acres in Washington, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to July 14, 1990.

Size
1,319 acres
Ignition
July 14, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,319 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 48.038, -121.087.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,319 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,658 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 14, 1990
State
Washington
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4803812108719900714
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 19908

FireAcresStartCause
Locustgrov Fire17,188Jul 30, 1990
Emerson Fire6,720Jul 30, 1990
Unnamed Fire2,079Jul 31, 1990
Washington Fire1,583
Nake Fire1,582Jul 19, 1990
Mcallister Fire1,557
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.