Pollalie Fire
The Pollalie Fire burned 969 acres in Kittitas County, Washington, in 2006. It was discovered on September 4, 2006, and contained on September 19, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 969 acres
- Discovered
- September 4, 2006
- Contained
- September 19, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,070 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.430, -121.124.
The record
- Reported final size
- 969 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,070 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 980 acres
- Discovered
- September 4, 2006, 7:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- September 19, 2006, 6:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Washington
- County
- Kittitas County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WAOWF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4743112111620060904
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1444351
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Perimeter records
- 3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 |
| 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 |
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.