Discovery Fire
The Discovery Fire burned 4,132 acres in Yakima County, Washington, in 2009. It was discovered on July 29, 2009, and contained on September 13, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,132 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2009
- Contained
- September 13, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,239 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.505, -121.234.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,132 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,239 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,121 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2009, 3:23 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 13, 2009, 1:09 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
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4649412121520090729
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1483801
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Attributes from NIFMID
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 20097
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Creek Complex | 48,902 | Aug 20, 2009 | Natural |
| Oden Road Fire | 9,607 | Aug 21, 2009 | Natural |
| Ahtanum 1 Fire | 2,750 | Oct 4, 2009 | Human |
| Milepost 38 Fire | 1,923 | Sep 16, 2009 | Human |
| Preston-Fox Fire | 1,400 | Oct 4, 2009 | Human |
| Twin Peaks Fire | 1,200 | Sep 3, 2009 | Natural |
| Texas Lake Fire | 1,185 | Aug 21, 2009 | Natural |
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.