Navarre Fire
The Navarre Fire burned 1,192 acres in Chelan County, Washington, in 2012. It was discovered on July 5, 2012, and contained on July 12, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,192 acres
- Discovered
- July 5, 2012
- Contained
- July 12, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,001 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.814, -120.203.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,192 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,001 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 602 acres
- Discovered
- July 5, 2012, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 12, 2012, 8:31 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Washington
- County
- Chelan County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WASES
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4781412020320120705
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1511068
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.