Wildfires of 2003

Unnamed Fire

2003Spokane County, WashingtonWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,073 acres in Spokane County, Washington, in 2003. It was discovered on July 20, 2003. The cause was recorded as smoking.

Size
1,073 acres
Discovered
July 20, 2003
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,124 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.444, -117.717.

The record

Reported final size
1,073 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,124 acres
Discovered
July 20, 2003
Cause
Human, Smoking
State
Washington
County
Spokane County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4744711768820030720
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
WA_18904

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
Hatten Road Fire7,209Jul 27, 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

Every fire of 2003 Washington fire history

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.