Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 2,200 acres in Yakima County, Washington, in 2002. It was discovered on August 14, 2002. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 2,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,264 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.734, -120.834.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,264 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2002
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Washington
- County
- Yakima County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4671712081820020814
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- WA_8999
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Point Fire | 43,374 | Jul 15, 2002 | Human |
| Deer Pt Fire | 39,859 | ||
| Pumphouse Fire | 10,367 | Jul 13, 2002 | Human |
| Quartz Mt. Complex (Middle Mountain) Fire | 7,858 | Aug 17, 2002 | Natural |
| Hwy 24 Fire | 4,800 | Sep 29, 2002 | Human |
| Quartz Mt. Complex (Quartz Mountain) Fire | 4,286 | Aug 17, 2002 | Natural |
| Deer Mt Fire | 2,281 | Aug 5, 2002 | Human |
| Deer Mountain Fire | 2,280 | ||
| Pickens Fire | 2,200 | Jul 24, 2002 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,873 | Aug 17, 2002 | Human |
| Mcbee Fire | 1,680 | Aug 22, 2002 | Human |
| Red Mtn Fire | 1,500 | May 21, 2002 | Human |
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.