Slide Creek Fire
The Slide Creek Fire burned 989 acres in Washington, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010, and contained on September 7, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 989 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010
- Contained
- September 7, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,096 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.429, -117.796.
The record
- Reported final size
- 989 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,096 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 983 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 7, 2010, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WANES
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-WANES-000711
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4842911781920100826
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2010WALPRFTC2
- Perimeter records
- 5 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.