2-RIVERS Fire
The 2-RIVERS Fire burned 2,918 acres in Washington, in 1999. It was discovered on September 23, 1999, and contained on September 28, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,918 acres
- Discovered
- September 23, 1999
- Contained
- September 28, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,144 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.911, -118.333.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,918 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,144 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,145 acres
- Discovered
- September 23, 1999, 12:41 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 28, 1999, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Spokane Agency
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- WASPA
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1999-WASPA-000078
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4793911830419990923
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-452621
- Note on the perimeter
- BIA WFMI 452621
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 19996
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malott Fire | 2,608 | Sep 25, 1999 | Human |
| Stonehenge Fire | 2,500 | Sep 5, 1999 | Human |
| Jameson Lake Fire | 2,000 | Aug 14, 1999 | Natural |
| Miller Ranch Fire | 2,000 | Jul 9, 1999 | Human |
| Timme Ranc Fire | 1,637 | Aug 25, 1999 | Human |
| Wlkolives Fire | 925 | Aug 12, 1999 |
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.