Flick Creek Fire
The Flick Creek Fire burned 7,879 acres in Washington, in 2006. It was discovered on July 26, 2006, and contained on October 3, 2006. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 7,879 acres
- Discovered
- July 26, 2006
- Contained
- October 3, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,001 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.282, -120.617.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,879 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,001 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,883 acres
- Discovered
- July 26, 2006, 1:45 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 3, 2006, 11:59 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- North Cascades National Park
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WANCP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-WANCP-000007
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4829512061020060726
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-527551
- Perimeter records
- 3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tripod Complex (Tripod) Fire | 113,011 | Jul 24, 2006 | Natural |
| Columbia Complex | 109,259 | Aug 21, 2006 | Natural |
| Tripod Complex (Spur Peak) Fire | 62,173 | Jul 3, 2006 | Natural |
| Tatoosh Complex | 51,671 | Aug 22, 2006 | Natural |
| Tinpan Fire | 9,252 | Jul 7, 2006 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,125 | Aug 28, 2006 | |
| Hatch Grade Fire | 8,000 | Jul 28, 2006 | Human |
| Highland Road Fire | 5,506 | Sep 30, 2006 | Human |
| Rocky Ford Fire | 5,000 | Jun 28, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,637 | Sep 29, 2006 | |
| Kurby Fire | 2,639 | Aug 4, 2006 | |
| Welch Road Fire | 2,571 |
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.