Rattlesnake Creek Fire
The Rattlesnake Creek Fire burned 1,700 acres in Yakima County, Washington, in 2007. It was discovered on August 5, 2007, and contained on August 9, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,700 acres
- Discovered
- August 5, 2007
- Contained
- August 9, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,007 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.754, -121.235.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,700 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,007 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,654 acres
- Discovered
- August 5, 2007, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 9, 2007, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Washington
- County
- Yakima County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WAOWF
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4676812120520070805
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1456772
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 5, from August 11, 2007 to October 25, 2007. 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 personnel assigned
- 3 on August 11, 2007
- Cost reported by the teams
- $50,000, in 2007 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2007 | 100 | |
| Aug 13, 2007 | 200 | |
| Sep 4, 2007 | 450 | |
| Sep 23, 2007 | 825 | |
| Oct 25, 2007 | 1,700 |
Other large fires in Washington in 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wautoma Fire | 72,641 | Aug 16, 2007 | |
| Black Rock Fire | 31,469 | ||
| Manila Creek Fire | 26,805 | Sep 10, 2007 | Human |
| Manilla Creek Fire | 25,790 | ||
| Horse Heaven Complex (Six Prong) Fire | 20,947 | Jul 13, 2007 | Natural |
| Overlook Fire | 17,946 | Jul 13, 2007 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 17,420 | Jul 6, 2007 | Human |
| Tunk Grade Fire | 15,547 | Jul 14, 2007 | Natural |
| Domke Lake Complex | 11,791 | Aug 5, 2007 | Natural |
| South Omak Lake Fire | 10,500 | Aug 30, 2007 | Human |
| Pend D'Oreille Fire | 9,482 | ||
| WoodGulch Fire | 7,666 |
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.