Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,204 acres in Okanogan County, Washington, in 1995. It was discovered on September 4, 1995. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 1,204 acres
- Discovered
- September 4, 1995
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,266 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.685, -119.546.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,204 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,266 acres
- Discovered
- September 4, 1995
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Washington
- County
- Okanogan County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4870911955619950904
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- WA_18492
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.
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.