Foster Creek Fire
The Foster Creek Fire burned 1,291 acres in Washington, in 2012. It was discovered on July 13, 2012. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,291 acres
- Discovered
- July 13, 2012
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,449 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.946, -119.641.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,291 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,449 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,294 acres
- Discovered
- July 13, 2012, 2:56 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Spokane District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WASES
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-WASES-000184
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4794611964120120713
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-649721
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 |
| Crane Road Fire | 12,500 | Aug 1, 2012 | Human |
| Buffalo Lake Road Fire | 11,299 | Aug 14, 2012 | Natural |
| Canyon Fire | 7,548 | Sep 8, 2012 | 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.