Tokio Fire
The Tokio Fire burned 18,120 acres in Washington, in 1998. It was discovered on July 29, 1998, and contained on July 30, 1998. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 18,120 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 1998
- Contained
- July 30, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,254 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.267, -118.301.
The record
- Reported final size
- 18,120 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,254 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 1998, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 30, 1998, 4:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Spokane District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4726311826019980729
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-8446
- Note on the perimeter
- completed a SS due to adjacent burn on agriculture private land
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 199812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Fire | 18,500 | Jul 27, 1998 | Natural |
| Rattlesnake Fire | 10,880 | Jul 1, 1998 | Natural |
| Rattlesnak Fire | 9,313 | ||
| North 25 Fire | 8,500 | Aug 4, 1998 | Natural |
| Saddle Mountain Fire | 8,300 | Jun 22, 1998 | Natural |
| Rock Bluff Fire | 7,926 | Jun 22, 1998 | Natural |
| JOJO3 Fire | 7,900 | Aug 26, 1998 | Human |
| Elkmeadow Fire | 6,500 | Jul 28, 1998 | Natural |
| View Point Fire | 3,880 | Jul 7, 1998 | Human |
| Avery Fire | 3,506 | Jul 10, 1998 | Human |
| Jo Jo Fire | 2,000 | Jul 3, 1998 | Natural |
| Kaiser Canyon Fire | 1,262 | Aug 21, 1998 | Natural |
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.