Wildfires of 2009

Oden Road Fire

2009WashingtonWildfire

The Oden Road Fire burned 9,607 acres in Washington, in 2009. It was discovered on August 21, 2009, and contained on August 28, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
9,607 acres
Discovered
August 21, 2009
Contained
August 28, 2009
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,137 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.329, -120.176.

The record

Reported final size
9,607 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
9,137 acres
Discovered
August 21, 2009, 6:30 p.m. local time
Contained
August 28, 2009, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Washington
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Spokane District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4834411973320090821
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-595721

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

FireAcresStartCause
Dry Creek Complex48,902Aug 20, 2009Natural
Discovery Fire4,132Jul 29, 2009Natural
Ahtanum 1 Fire2,750Oct 4, 2009Human
Milepost 38 Fire1,923Sep 16, 2009Human
Preston-Fox Fire1,400Oct 4, 2009Human
Twin Peaks Fire1,200Sep 3, 2009Natural
Texas Lake Fire1,185Aug 21, 2009Natural

Every fire of 2009 Washington fire history

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Sources

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.