Bear Gulch II Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,037 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.504, -123.296.

Reported final size

1,100 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

1,037 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

867 acres

Discovered

July 25, 2006, 7:15 p.m. local time

Contained

October 25, 2006, 5:00 p.m. local time

Cause

Human, Fireworks

State

Washington

County

Mason County

Land ownership at origin

Forest Service

Reporting unit

Olympic National Forest

Agency

Forest Service

Part of

Carbon Copy Complex

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

WA4750112329120060725

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

FS-1445744

Perimeter map method

GPS - Uncorrected 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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 29, from July 26, 2006 to November 9, 2006. 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.

Injuries

2

Most personnel assigned

480 on August 25, 2006

Most aircraft assigned

5

People evacuated, at the most

Evacuations were reported; no count was filed

Cost reported by the teams

$1.4 million, in 2006 dollars

Cause on the reports

Human

Primary fuel model reported

Closed Timber Litter

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 600 acres, on August 22, 2006.

Every fire of 2006 Washington fire history

• Skokomish, WA13 miles southeast of the fire
• Shelton, WA22 miles southeast of the fire
• Belfair, WA22 miles east of the fire
• Allyn, WA23 miles east of the fire
• Seabeck, WA24 miles northeast of the fire
• Key Center, WA28 miles southeast of the fire

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.