Highland Road Fire
The Highland Road Fire burned 5,506 acres in Douglas County, Washington, in 2006. It was discovered on September 30, 2006, and contained on October 3, 2006. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 5,506 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 2006
- Contained
- October 3, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,713 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.045, -119.529.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,506 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,713 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,517 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 2006, 5:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 3, 2006, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- Washington
- County
- Douglas County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Spokane District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WASPD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4806811948120060930
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-535064
- 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.
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 |
| Flick Creek Fire | 7,879 | Jul 26, 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.