Snookum Fire
The Snookum Fire burned 3,000 acres in Washington, in 1992. It was discovered on August 4, 1992, and contained on August 8, 1992. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Discovered
- August 4, 1992
- Contained
- August 8, 1992
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,383 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.816, -121.118.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,383 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,647 acres
- Discovered
- August 4, 1992, 12:50 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 8, 1992, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Spokane District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4583312110119920804
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-41227
- Perimeter map method
- Hand Sketch
- Perimeter records
- 4 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 199212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haystack Fire | 24,400 | Aug 3, 1992 | Human |
| Rattlesnak Fire | 17,628 | Jun 9, 1992 | Human |
| Whitmore Fire | 6,985 | Jun 25, 1992 | Natural |
| Boot Mtn Fire | 4,940 | Jun 25, 1992 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Sep 12, 1992 | Human |
| Rattlesnak Fire | 3,250 | Jun 25, 1992 | Natural |
| Tucannon Fire | 3,000 | Aug 2, 1992 | Human |
| Lizzy Fire | 2,620 | Jun 24, 1992 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,335 | Aug 2, 1992 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,261 | Jun 7, 1992 | Human |
| Goose Lake Fire | 1,719 | May 20, 1992 | |
| Jackass Bu Fire | 1,288 | Aug 16, 1992 | Human |
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.