Walker Canyon Fire
The Walker Canyon Fire burned 25,000 acres in Walla Walla County, Washington, in 2005. It was discovered on June 25, 2005.
- Size
- 25,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 25, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 20,757 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.417, -118.417.
The record
- Reported final size
- 25,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 20,757 acres
- Discovered
- June 25, 2005, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Washington
- County
- Walla Walla County
- Land ownership at origin
- County
- Reporting unit
- Washington State Fire Marshal's Office
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4646111854720050625
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2005_WA-WFS-012
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| School Fire | 52,000 | Aug 5, 2005 | Human |
| West Omak Lake Fire | 11,330 | Jul 12, 2005 | Human |
| Mcclane Fire | 6,851 | Aug 9, 2005 | Human |
| Wood Gulch Fire | 5,400 | Jul 23, 2005 | |
| Wall Lake Fire | 5,178 | Jul 27, 2005 | Human |
| Juniper Canyon Fire | 5,000 | Jun 22, 2005 | |
| Weather Station Fire | 4,917 | Jul 5, 2005 | |
| Second Hud Fire | 4,274 | Jul 4, 2005 | Human |
| I 82 Fire | 2,200 | Aug 19, 2005 | Human |
| Badger Road Fire | 2,000 | Jul 25, 2005 | |
| Harker Canyon Fire | 1,566 | Aug 10, 2005 | Human |
| Burnt Bread Fire | 1,246 | Aug 6, 2005 | 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.