Wildfires of 1999

Timme Ranc Fire

1999WashingtonWildfire

The Timme Ranc Fire burned 1,637 acres in Washington, in 1999. It was discovered on August 25, 1999, and contained on August 26, 1999. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.

Size
1,637 acres
Discovered
August 25, 1999
Contained
August 26, 1999
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,717 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.140, -119.346.

The record

Reported final size
1,637 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,717 acres
Discovered
August 25, 1999, 6:45 a.m. local time
Contained
August 26, 1999, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
State
Washington
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Colville Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4812411933019990825
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-440544

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

FireAcresStartCause
2-RIVERS Fire2,918Sep 23, 1999Human
Malott Fire2,608Sep 25, 1999Human
Stonehenge Fire2,500Sep 5, 1999Human
Jameson Lake Fire2,000Aug 14, 1999Natural
Miller Ranch Fire2,000Jul 9, 1999Human
Wlkolives Fire925Aug 12, 1999

Every fire of 1999 Washington fire history

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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.