Wildfires of 2001

Unnamed Fire

2001Okanogan County, WashingtonWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 5,785 acres in Okanogan County, Washington, in 2001. It was discovered on August 13, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
5,785 acres
Discovered
August 13, 2001
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,662 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.205, -119.882.

The record

Reported final size
5,785 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,662 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
5,412 acres
Discovered
August 13, 2001
Cause
Natural
State
Washington
County
Okanogan County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
WAOWF
Part of
Brewster Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4819711984220010813
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
WA_8927
Perimeter map method
Other
Perimeter records
2 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 200112

FireAcresStartCause
Rex Creek Complex (Rex Creek) Fire55,913Aug 12, 2001Natural
Virginia Lake Fire36,775Aug 13, 2001Natural
St Marys Fire32,960Aug 14, 2001Human
Goodnoe Hills Fire11,526Aug 18, 2001Human
Port Kelly Fire9,929Jul 28, 2001Human
Thirty Mile Fire9,324Jul 9, 2001Human
Fourth of July Fire7,077
Fourth of July Fire6,914Aug 13, 2001Natural
Mt. Leona Complex6,144Aug 13, 2001Natural
North Coppei Fire4,810Sep 18, 2001Human
Union Valley Fire4,590Jul 28, 2001Human
Libby South Fire3,830Jul 9, 2001Human

Every fire of 2001 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.