Wildfires of 2004

Pot Peak-Sisi Ridge Complex

2004Chelan County, WashingtonWildfire

The Pot Peak-Sisi Ridge Complex burned 29,700 acres in Chelan County, Washington, in 2004. It was discovered on July 19, 2004, and contained on October 19, 2004. MTBS dates its ignition to June 26, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
29,700 acres
Discovered
July 19, 2004
Contained
October 19, 2004
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 37,605 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.085, -120.520.

The record

Reported final size
29,700 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
37,605 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
29,983 acres
Discovered
July 19, 2004, 9:30 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
June 26, 2004
Contained
October 19, 2004, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Washington
County
Chelan County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
WAOWF
Part of
Pot Peak-Sisi Ridge Complex
Other fire reports inside the burned area
Pot Peak
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4799112039420040626
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-401970
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 20049

FireAcresStartCause
Pot Peak Fire17,181
Fischer Fire16,424Aug 8, 2004Human
Hopkins Canyon Complex5,072Jun 26, 2004Natural
Beebe Fire4,205Jul 4, 2004Human
Mud Lake Fire4,000Aug 9, 2004Human
Elmer City Fire1,929Jul 29, 2004Human
Williams Butte Fire1,257Aug 16, 2004Natural
Freezeout Fire838Jun 24, 2004Natural
Mill Canyon Fire150Aug 1, 2004Human

Every fire of 2004 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.