Wildfires of 2010

Hubbard Fire

2010Columbia County, WashingtonWildfire

The Hubbard Fire burned 11,500 acres in Columbia County, Washington, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010, and contained on August 29, 2010.

Size
11,500 acres
Discovered
August 26, 2010
Contained
August 29, 2010
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,818 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.377, -117.756.

The record

Reported final size
11,500 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
10,818 acres
Discovered
August 26, 2010, 3:00 p.m. local time
Contained
August 29, 2010, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Washington
County
Columbia County
Reporting unit
Washington State Fire Marshal's Office
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WA4638111779920100826
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2010_WA-WFS-109

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
Boulder Creek Fire10,013
Baird Springs Fire7,693Sep 10, 2010Human
Cowiche Mill Fire5,834Jul 18, 2010Human
Duck Lake Fire3,000Jul 14, 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.