Wood Gulch Fire
The Wood Gulch Fire burned 5,400 acres in Klickitat County, Washington, in 2005. It was discovered on July 23, 2005.
- Size
- 5,400 acres
- Discovered
- July 23, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,152 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.784, -120.235.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,400 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,152 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,751 acres
- Discovered
- July 23, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Washington
- County
- Klickitat County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WAWFS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-WAWFS-99999999
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4580012023420050723
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2005WADNR48312
- 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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from July 24, 2005 to July 26, 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
- 3
- Most personnel assigned
- 377 on July 25, 2005
- Most aircraft assigned
- 3
- Cost reported by the teams
- $375,000, in 2005 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,900 acres, on July 25, 2005.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2005 | 3,500 | |
| Jul 25, 2005 | 5,400 | +1,900 |
| Jul 26, 2005 | 5,400 | 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 | |
| West Omak Lake Fire | 11,330 | Jul 12, 2005 | Human |
| Mcclane Fire | 6,851 | Aug 9, 2005 | Human |
| 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.