Hiway 8 Fire
The Hiway 8 Fire burned 1,840 acres in Klickitat County, Washington, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010, and contained on September 1, 2010. MTBS dates its ignition to August 27, 2010. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 1,840 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010
- Contained
- September 1, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,135 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.715, -121.290.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,840 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,135 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,143 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010, 12:30 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 27, 2010
- Contained
- September 1, 2010, 9:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- Washington
- County
- Klickitat County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Part of
- Hiway 8 Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4572012128220100827
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1489069
- Perimeter map method
- Hand Sketch
- 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 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eureka Fire | 21,620 | Aug 6, 2010 | Human |
| Swakane Fire | 19,291 | Jul 10, 2010 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 16,724 | Aug 14, 2010 | |
| Hubbard Fire | 11,500 | Aug 26, 2010 | |
| Boulder Creek Fire | 10,013 | ||
| Baird Springs Fire | 7,693 | Sep 10, 2010 | Human |
| Cowiche Mill Fire | 5,834 | Jul 18, 2010 | Human |
| Duck Lake Fire | 3,000 | Jul 14, 2010 | Human |
| Port Kelly Fire | 2,755 | Jul 31, 2010 | Natural |
| Spanish Castle Fire | 2,470 | Jul 4, 2010 | Human |
| Leahy Junction Fire | 2,000 | Aug 3, 2010 | Natural |
| Wenatchee River Complex | 1,948 | Jul 30, 2010 | 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.