Dry Creek Complex
The Dry Creek Complex burned 48,902 acres in Yakima County, Washington, in 2009. It was discovered on August 20, 2009, and contained on August 26, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 48,902 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 2009
- Contained
- August 26, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 49,880 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.483, -119.963.
The record
- Reported final size
- 48,902 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 49,880 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 48,911 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 2009, 10:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 26, 2009, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Washington
- County
- Yakima County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Spokane District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WASPD
- Part of
- Dry Creek Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4647311995320090820
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-593610
- 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 20097
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oden Road Fire | 9,607 | Aug 21, 2009 | Natural |
| Discovery Fire | 4,132 | Jul 29, 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.