Wildfires of 1994

Road 135 Fire

1994WashingtonWildfire

The Road 135 Fire burned 1,800 acres in Washington, in 1994. It was discovered on July 25, 1994, and contained on August 12, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,800 acres
Discovered
July 25, 1994
Contained
August 12, 1994
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,346 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.050, -120.855.

The record

Reported final size
1,800 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,346 acres
Discovered
July 25, 1994, 5:20 p.m. local time
Contained
August 12, 1994, 5:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Washington
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Yakama Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4606512082319940725
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-450287
Note on the perimeter
Very N part MIGHT be agland because now bare land stripped of trees.

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 199412

FireAcresStartCause
Tyee Fire140,000Jul 24, 1994Natural
Hatchery Creek Fire29,435Jul 29, 1994Human
Hatchery Complex (Hatchery) Fire12,060Jul 24, 1994Natural
Copper Butte Fire10,580Jul 31, 1994Natural
Thunder Fire8,900Jul 24, 1994Natural
Unnamed Fire8,387Aug 3, 1994
Copperbtte Fire6,142
Lakebeds Fire5,600Jul 24, 1994Natural
Tunk Fire4,800Aug 4, 1994Natural
Coldcreek Fire4,590Jul 21, 1994Human
Methow Complex (Whiteface) Fire4,380Aug 4, 1994Natural
Round Mtn Fire3,241Jul 26, 1994Natural

Every fire of 1994 Washington fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.