Crane Road Fire
The Crane Road Fire burned 12,500 acres in Douglas County, Washington, in 2012. It was discovered on August 1, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 12,500 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,730 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.060, -119.851.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 12,730 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 11,127 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2012, 12:27 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Washington
- County
- Douglas County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Washington State Fire Marshal's Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WASPD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-WASPD-500300
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4806011985120120801
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2009_WA-WFS-302
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 201212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mountain Complex | 43,874 | Sep 15, 2012 | Natural |
| Taylor Bridge Fire | 23,500 | Aug 13, 2012 | Human |
| Apache Pass Fire | 23,324 | Sep 9, 2012 | Natural |
| Cascade Creek Fire | 20,296 | Sep 9, 2012 | Natural |
| Peavine Fire | 20,000 | ||
| Barker Canyon Complex | 17,049 | Sep 8, 2012 | Natural |
| St Marys Mission Road Fire | 16,853 | Oct 2, 2012 | Human |
| Barker Canyon Fire | 15,798 | ||
| Byrd Fire | 14,164 | Sep 9, 2012 | Natural |
| Buffalo Lake Road Fire | 11,299 | Aug 14, 2012 | Natural |
| Canyon Fire | 7,548 | Sep 8, 2012 | Natural |
| Goat Fire | 7,378 | Sep 15, 2012 | Human |
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.