Wildfires of 2000

Rocky Hull Fire

2000Okanogan County, WashingtonWildfire

The Rocky Hull Fire burned 9,404 acres in Okanogan County, Washington, in 2000. It was discovered on July 22, 2000, and contained on August 3, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
9,404 acres
Discovered
July 22, 2000
Contained
August 3, 2000
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,924 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.893, -119.413.

The record

Reported final size
9,404 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
9,924 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
9,469 acres
Discovered
July 22, 2000, 7:10 a.m. local time
Contained
August 3, 2000, 7:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Washington
County
Okanogan County
Reporting unit
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
WAOWF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4884211935820000722
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-354193
Perimeter map method
Other
Perimeter records
3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

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
Range Fire10,323Jun 23, 2000Human
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

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.