Wildfires of 2012

Highway 141 Fire

2012Klickitat County, WashingtonWildfire

The Highway 141 Fire burned 1,644 acres in Klickitat County, Washington, in 2012. It was discovered on September 5, 2012.

Size
1,644 acres
Discovered
September 5, 2012
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,080 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.761, -121.517.

The record

Reported final size
1,644 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,080 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,636 acres
Discovered
September 5, 2012, 1:36 p.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Washington
County
Klickitat County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WASES
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2012-WASES-000430
MTBS fire identifier
WA4576012151620120905
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2012-WA-SES-430

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

FireAcresStartCause
Table Mountain Complex43,874Sep 15, 2012Natural
Taylor Bridge Fire23,500Aug 13, 2012Human
Apache Pass Fire23,324Sep 9, 2012Natural
Cascade Creek Fire20,296Sep 9, 2012Natural
Peavine Fire20,000
Barker Canyon Complex17,049Sep 8, 2012Natural
St Marys Mission Road Fire16,853Oct 2, 2012Human
Barker Canyon Fire15,798
Byrd Fire14,164Sep 9, 2012Natural
Crane Road Fire12,500Aug 1, 2012Human
Buffalo Lake Road Fire11,299Aug 14, 2012Natural
Canyon Fire7,548Sep 8, 2012Natural

Every fire of 2012 Washington fire history

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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.