Rainbow Bridge Prescribed Fire
The Rainbow Bridge Prescribed Fire burned 3,700 acres in Washington, in 2010. It was discovered on July 29, 2010, and contained on September 14, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,700 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2010
- Contained
- September 14, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,699 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.396, -120.797.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,700 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,699 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,996 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2010, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 14, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- North Cascades National Park
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WANCP
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4835412068420100729
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-615093
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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.