Star Fire
The Star Fire burned 1,800 acres in Asotin County, Washington, in 1997. It was discovered on August 11, 1997, and contained on August 15, 1997. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,800 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 1997
- Contained
- August 15, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,885 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.237, -117.363.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,800 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,885 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,260 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 1997, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 15, 1997, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Washington
- County
- Asotin County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Umatilla National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- ORUMF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-ORUMF-000059
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4624311735619970811
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-326664
- Perimeter map method
- Photogrammetric Compilation
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 19977
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haystack Fire | 20,187 | ||
| Pow Wah Kee Fire | 6,500 | Aug 2, 1997 | Natural |
| Olympia Command Fire | 5,500 | Aug 26, 1997 | Human |
| Corefu Fire | 5,000 | Jul 21, 1997 | Natural |
| Fireweed Fire | 1,605 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 1,151 | Aug 14, 1997 | Human |
| Corral Cyn Fire | 920 | May 17, 1997 | 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.