Rocky Hull Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Command Fire | 163,884 | Jun 27, 2000 | Human |
| Mule Dry Fire | 46,802 | Aug 23, 2000 | Natural |
| Range Fire | 10,323 | Jun 23, 2000 | Human |
| Buffalo Lake Fire | 9,286 | Aug 6, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,864 | Sep 19, 2000 | |
| Goodnoe Fire | 6,500 | Jul 26, 2000 | |
| Alderdale Fire | 6,080 | Jul 17, 2000 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,400 | Jul 22, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,481 | Sep 27, 2000 | |
| Mahoney Fire | 2,197 | ||
| Baird Fire | 2,000 | Jul 8, 2000 | Human |
| Cheyne Rd Fire | 1,818 | May 26, 2000 | Human |
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.