Wildfires of 2012

Klone Peak Fire

2012Chelan County, WashingtonWildfire

The Klone Peak Fire burned 1,502 acres in Chelan County, Washington, in 2012. It was discovered on September 9, 2012, and contained on October 22, 2012. MTBS dates its ignition to September 8, 2012. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,502 acres
Discovered
September 9, 2012
Contained
October 22, 2012
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,634 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.968, -120.590.

The record

Reported final size
1,502 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,634 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,506 acres
Discovered
September 9, 2012, 8:58 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
September 8, 2012
Contained
October 22, 2012, 4:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Washington
County
Chelan County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
WAOWF
Part of
Wenatchee River Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2012-WAOWF-000507
MTBS fire identifier
WA4796812059020120908
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1509631
Perimeter map method
Other
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
Wenatchee Complex

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.