Wildfires of 2011

Road 29 Fire

2011Grant County, WashingtonWildfire

The Road 29 Fire burned 2,951 acres in Grant County, Washington, in 2011. It was discovered on July 25, 2011, and contained on July 26, 2011. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
2,951 acres
Discovered
July 25, 2011
Contained
July 26, 2011
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,936 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.502, -119.030.

The record

Reported final size
2,951 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,936 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,951 acres
Discovered
July 25, 2011, 12:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 26, 2011, 8:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Washington
County
Grant County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Spokane District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WASPD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2011-WASPD-000367
MTBS fire identifier
WA4749511901720110725
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-632597

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 20119

FireAcresStartCause
Wishram II Fire11,008Aug 29, 2011Human
Vansycle Canyon Fire5,000Aug 7, 2011
Unnamed Fire4,310Sep 28, 2011Human
Bell Plain Complex4,002Aug 28, 2011Natural
Monastery Complex3,626Sep 7, 2011Human
Salmon Fire1,910Aug 29, 2011Human
Big Hump Fire1,243Sep 1, 2011Human
Washington Flats Fire1,100Aug 21, 2011Human
Plath Road Fire1,070Jun 15, 2011Human

Every fire of 2011 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.