Wildfires of 2010

Line Fire

2010WashingtonWildfire

The Line Fire burned 920 acres in Washington, in 2010. It was discovered on July 12, 2010, and contained on September 12, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
920 acres
Discovered
July 12, 2010
Contained
September 12, 2010
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,157 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.832, -117.963.

The record

Reported final size
920 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,157 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
693 acres
Discovered
July 12, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
September 12, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Washington
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Spokane Agency
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WASPA
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2010-WASPA-005629
MTBS fire identifier
WA4783611795220100712
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-618156
Perimeter records
2 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

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
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

Every fire of 2010 Washington fire history

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.