Wildfires of 2003

Hatten Road Fire

2003Lincoln County, WashingtonWildfire

The Hatten Road Fire burned 7,209 acres in Lincoln County, Washington, in 2003. It was discovered on July 27, 2003, and contained on July 31, 2003. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
7,209 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2003
Contained
July 31, 2003
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,243 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.560, -118.559.

The record

Reported final size
7,209 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
7,243 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
7,213 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2003, 4:30 p.m. local time
Contained
July 31, 2003, 2:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Washington
County
Lincoln County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Spokane District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WASPD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4757111854020030727
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-117449
Perimeter map method
Other

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 200312

FireAcresStartCause
Fawn Peak Complex (Farewell) Fire81,343Jun 30, 2003Natural
Needles Fire21,300Aug 5, 2003Natural
Umtanum Ridge Fire20,000Jul 24, 2003Human
Rattlesnake Canyon Fire10,500Jul 4, 2003Human
Togo Mountain Fire5,285Aug 15, 2003Natural
Juniper Dunes Fire5,200Aug 6, 2003Natural
Isabel Fire4,535Sep 7, 2003Natural
Mineral Park Fire3,654Aug 15, 2003Natural
Ahtanum Ridge Fire2,675Jun 27, 2003Human
Maple Fire2,409Sep 5, 2003Natural
Bigbeaver Fire2,301Aug 5, 2003Natural
Black Canyon Fire2,287Aug 10, 2003Human

Every fire of 2003 Washington fire history

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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.