Wildfires of 1995

Unnamed Fire

1995Okanogan County, WashingtonWildfire

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.