Wildfires of 2010

Duck Lake Fire

2010Lincoln County, WashingtonWildfire

The Duck Lake Fire burned 3,000 acres in Lincoln County, Washington, in 2010. It was discovered on July 14, 2010, and contained on July 15, 2010. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
3,000 acres
Discovered
July 14, 2010
Contained
July 15, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,254 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.369, -118.667.

The record

Reported final size
3,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,254 acres
Discovered
July 14, 2010, 3:04 p.m. local time
Contained
July 15, 2010, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Washington
County
Lincoln County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Spokane District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4737011866720100714
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-604699

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 201012

FireAcresStartCause
Eureka Fire21,620Aug 6, 2010Human
Swakane Fire19,291Jul 10, 2010Human
Unnamed Fire16,724Aug 14, 2010
Hubbard Fire11,500Aug 26, 2010
Boulder Creek Fire10,013
Baird Springs Fire7,693Sep 10, 2010Human
Cowiche Mill Fire5,834Jul 18, 2010Human
Port Kelly Fire2,755Jul 31, 2010Natural
Spanish Castle Fire2,470Jul 4, 2010Human
Leahy Junction Fire2,000Aug 3, 2010Natural
Wenatchee River Complex1,948Jul 30, 2010Natural
Nahahum Fire1,947

Every fire of 2010 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.