Wildfires of 2000

Range Fire

2000WashingtonWildfire

The Range Fire burned 10,323 acres in Washington, in 2000. It was discovered on June 23, 2000, and contained on June 25, 2000. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
10,323 acres
Discovered
June 23, 2000
Contained
June 25, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,518 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.308, -120.314.

The record

Reported final size
10,323 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
11,518 acres
Discovered
June 23, 2000, 11:20 a.m. local time
Contained
June 25, 2000, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Washington
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Yakama Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4617912116020000623
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-450712

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 200012

FireAcresStartCause
24 Command Fire163,884Jun 27, 2000Human
Mule Dry Fire46,802Aug 23, 2000Natural
Rocky Hull Fire9,404Jul 22, 2000Natural
Buffalo Lake Fire9,286Aug 6, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire6,864Sep 19, 2000
Goodnoe Fire6,500Jul 26, 2000
Alderdale Fire6,080Jul 17, 2000
Unnamed Fire5,400Jul 22, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire2,481Sep 27, 2000
Mahoney Fire2,197
Baird Fire2,000Jul 8, 2000Human
Cheyne Rd Fire1,818May 26, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 Washington fire history

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.