West Omak Lake Fire
The West Omak Lake Fire burned 11,330 acres in Washington, in 2005. It was discovered on July 12, 2005, and contained on July 17, 2005. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 11,330 acres
- Discovered
- July 12, 2005
- Contained
- July 17, 2005
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,441 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.242, -119.391.
The record
- Reported final size
- 11,330 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 11,441 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 11,258 acres
- Discovered
- July 12, 2005, 1:07 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 17, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Colville Agency
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WACOA
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4820111938520050712
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-512423
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Washington State DNR data
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 7, from July 12, 2005 to July 17, 2005. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 18
- Most personnel assigned
- 747 on July 15, 2005
- Most aircraft assigned
- 4
- Cost reported by the teams
- $2 million, in 2005 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 7,200 acres, on July 13, 2005.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2005 | 800 | |
| Jul 13, 2005 | 8,000 | +7,200 |
| Jul 14, 2005 | 11,300 | +3,300 |
| Jul 15, 2005 | 11,300 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 2005 | 11,300 | 0 |
| Jul 17, 2005 | 11,300 | 0 |
Other large fires in Washington in 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| School Fire | 52,000 | Aug 5, 2005 | Human |
| Walker Canyon Fire | 25,000 | Jun 25, 2005 | |
| 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
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.