Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,151 acres in Stevens County, Washington, in 1997. It was discovered on August 14, 1997. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,151 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,236 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.848, -117.732.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,151 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,236 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 1997
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Washington
- County
- Stevens 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
- WA4786011772219970814
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- WA_6000
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 |
| Star Fire | 1,800 | Aug 11, 1997 | Human |
| Fireweed Fire | 1,605 | ||
| Corral Cyn Fire | 920 | May 17, 1997 | Human |
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.