Wildfires of 1996

Unnamed Fire

1996WashingtonWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 21,123 acres in Washington, in 1996. MTBS dates its ignition to August 7, 1996.

Size
21,123 acres
Ignition
August 7, 1996

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 21,123 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.017, -118.825.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
21,123 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 7, 1996
State
Washington
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4601711882519960807
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in Washington in 199612

FireAcresStartCause
Cold Creek Fire57,520Aug 14, 1996Human
Lincoln Fire20,080Aug 30, 1996Human
Timberline Complex15,238Aug 24, 1996Human
Juniper Fire8,480Jun 29, 1996Human
Quincy Fire8,450Aug 3, 1996Natural
North Fork Twentyfive Mile Fire8,352
Elephant 2 Fire5,830Jun 15, 1996Human
Elbow Basin Fire3,650Jul 28, 1996Natural
Unnamed Fire3,020Aug 11, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire3,000Sep 28, 1996Human
Elephant Fire2,115Jun 15, 1996Human
Appaloosa Fire2,000Jul 30, 1996Human

Every fire of 1996 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. 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.